Title
Stability and Gait Planning of 3-UPU Hexapod Walking Robot.
Abstract
The paper presents an innovative hexapod walking robot built with 3-UPU parallel mechanism. In the robot, the parallel mechanism is used as both an actuator to generate walking and also a connecting body to connect two groups of three legs, thus enabling the robot to walk with simple gait by very few motors. In this paper, forward and inverse kinematics solutions are obtained. The workspace of the parallel mechanism is analyzed using limit boundary search method. The walking stability of the robot is analyzed, which yields the robot's maximum step length. The gait planning of the hexapod walking robot is studied for walking on both flat and uneven terrains. The new robot, combining the advantages of parallel robot and walking robot, has a large carrying capacity, strong passing ability, flexible turning ability, and simple gait control for its deployment for uneven terrains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/robotics7030048
ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
hexapod walking robot,3-UPU parallel mechanism,kinematics,stability,gait planning
Parallel manipulator,Kinematics,Inverse kinematics,Gait,Simulation,Workspace,Control engineering,Engineering,Hexapod,Robot,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3.0
2218-6581
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruiqin Li111.06
Hongwei Meng210.38
Shaoping Bai37417.53
Yinyin Yao410.38
Jianwei Zhang5116.58