关键词:
Legged robot
Curling robot
Winter Olympics
Mechanism design
Motion planning
摘要:
When a curling rock slides on an ice sheet with an initial rotation,a lateral movement occurs,which is known as the curling *** force of friction between the curling rock and the ice sheet changes continually with changes in the environment;thus,the sport of curling requires great skill and *** throwing of the curling rock is a great challenge in robot design and control,and existing curling robots usually adopt a combination scheme of a wheel chassis and gripper that differs significantly from human throwing movements.A hexapod curling robot that imitates human kicking,sliding,pushing,and curling rock rotating was designed and manufactured by our group,and completed a perfect show during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics *** switching between the walking and throwing tasks is realized by the robot’s morphology transformation based on leg configuration *** robot’s controlling parameters,which include the kicking velocity v_(k),pushing velocity v_(p),orientation angle θc,and rotation velocityω,are determined by aiming and sliding models according to the estimated equivalent friction coefficientμ_(equ)and ratio e of the front and back *** stable errors between the target and actual stopping points converge to 0.2 and 1.105 m in the simulations and experiments,respectively,and the error shown in the experiments is close to that of a well-trained wheelchair curling *** robot holds promise for helping ice-makers rectify ice sheet friction or assisting in athlete training.