Tribolon: Water Based Self-Assembly Robot with Freezing Connector (Video)

被引：1

作者：

Miyashita, Shuhei ^{[1
]}

Casanova, Flurin ^{[1
]}

Lungarella, Max ^{[1
]}

Pfeifer, Rolf ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Zurich, Dept Informat, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

2008 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-3, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS | 2008年

关键词：

D O I：

10.1109/IROS.2008.4651233

中图分类号：

TP18 [人工智能理论];

学科分类号：

081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;

摘要：

We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool down and freeze the water between two modules thus causes them to attach to each other. We validate the feasibility of this mechanism by embedding Peltier heat pumps (m = 0.8 g) in a cm scale self-assembly system. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed Peltier-based connector has (a) a high bond strength/weight ratio for a rather large range of temperatures and (b) is rather robust against misalignments between docking modules, making it a useful alternative to current connection mechanisms for small scale low autonomy self-assembly systems.

引用

页码：4147 / 4148

页数：2