Design and Motion Synthesis of Modular Walking Robot Mero

Abstract

The walking robots are built to displace the loads on the not-aligned terrain. The mechatronic walking system protects much better the environment when its contact with the soil is discrete, a fact that limits the area that is crushed appreciatively. At the Polytechnic University of Bucharest a walking modular robot to handle farming tools has been developed. This walking robot has three twolegged modules. Every leg has three freedom degrees and a tactile sensor to measure the contact, which consists of the lower and upper levels. The body of the MERO (MEchanism RObot) walking robot carries a gyroscopic bearing sensor to measure the pitch and roll angles of the platform. The legs are powered by hydraulic drives and are equipped with potentiometric sensors. They are used to control the walking robot in the adaptability to a natural ground. A vehicle like that is Romanian Walking Robot MERO (Fig.1)