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一种谐振式压电爬行机器人的设计与实验

DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT OF A RESONANT PIEZOELECTRIC CRAWLING ROBOT

  • 摘要: 微小型机器人是近年来智能机器人技术发展研究的重点方向, 基于其体积较小、灵敏度高、运动灵活等优点, 可以应用于灾后救援搜索、极端环境探测和医疗手术等诸多领域. 压电陶瓷是一种能够将机械能和电能互相转换的智能材料, 将压电陶瓷与爬行机器人结构相结合, 设计出压电驱动和执行结构一体化的机器人, 不仅能够使得机器人小型化, 传动效率提高, 而且能够让它的运动更加平稳可靠. 因此, 对于复杂环境下的作业, 利用逆压电效应和摩擦驱动以及黏滑运动原理设计出的各种新型结构的压电爬行机器人具有非常广的研究前景和实用价值. 文章基于逆压电效应设计了一种由双压电片驱动的足腿一体化四足爬行机器人, 并设计了几种不同类型摩擦力的驱动足. 利用理论力学方法对该机器人的一个单元体建立整体受力方程, 利用振动力学知识推导了其动力学模型, 将机器人压电驱动腿结构简化为变截面、变角度弯折梁, 再用欧拉−伯努利梁理论建立力学方程, 最后求解得到其固有频率. 制作了四足爬行机器人实物, 通过实验测试得到了不同驱动频率、不同负载、不同电压和不同驱动足对机器人单元节运动方向及运动速度的影响, 以及不同的接触面和不同的电压与频率信号对四足爬行机器人运动方向及运动速度的影响. 最后, 通过仿真控制软件连接半物理仿真平台Quancer板卡, 利用不同频率和幅值的驱动电压控制四足爬行机器人使其实现了左转、右转、绕圆心自转以及不加导轨的近似直线运动.

     

    Abstract: Micro robots have become a key research direction in the development of intelligent robot technology in recent years. Based on their advantages such as small size, high sensitivity, and flexible movement, they can be applied in many fields such as disaster rescue search, extreme environment detection, and medical surgery. Piezoelectric ceramic is a kind of intelligent material that can convert mechanical and electrical energy into each other. By combining piezoelectric ceramic with crawling robots, a crawling robot with integrated patch-typed piezoelectric drive and execution structure can be designed. Such design not only reduces the size of the mechanism, improves transmission efficiency, but also makes the robot's motion more stable and reliable. Therefore, for tasks in complex environments, various new structures of piezoelectric crawling robots designed using the inverse piezoelectric effect, friction drive, and stick-slip motion principle have very broad research prospects and practical value. This paper designs an integrated quadruped crawling robot driven by dual piezoelectric plates based on the inverse piezoelectric effect, and designs several driven feet with different friction forces. The theoretical mechanic methods are used to establish the overall force equation of a unit body of the robot, and the vibration mechanics is used to derive its dynamic model. A quadruped piezoelectric robot is designed and manufactured, and we have experimentally tested the effects of different driving frequencies, loads, voltages, and driving feet on the motion direction and speed of a single unit segment of the robot. We also investigated the effects of different contact surfaces and voltage and frequency signals on the motion direction and speed of the quadruped crawling robot. Finally, the semi-physical simulation platform Quancer board is connected through the simulation software, and the quadruped crawling robot is controlled by driving voltages of different frequencies and amplitudes to achieve left turn, right turn, rotation around the center of the circle, and approximate linear motion without a guide rail.

     

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