The adelopod tumbling robot

Brett Hemes, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Barry O’Brien

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Abstract

The desire for a high mobility-to-size ratio in mobile robots has led to the exploration of many new methods of locomotion, one of which is tumbling. We believe that tumbling has a great potential to produce high mobility-to-size ratios in miniature mobile robots. In this paper we discuss tumbling locomotion and introduce the Adelopod, a small two-armed tumbling robot recently developed at the University of Minnesota Center for Distributed Robotics. The Adelopod achieves high mobility with low hardware complexity, making it a desirable addition to any heterogeneous team of robots.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5152211
Pages (from-to)1583-1584
Number of pages2
JournalProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA '09 - Kobe, Japan
Duration: May 12 2009May 17 2009

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