In order to improve the elbow passing performance and different diameter adaptability of pipeline robot,a supported crawler pipeline robot is designed,which adopts screw nut mechanism and hinge four-bar mechanism to a...In order to improve the elbow passing performance and different diameter adaptability of pipeline robot,a supported crawler pipeline robot is designed,which adopts screw nut mechanism and hinge four-bar mechanism to adapt to the complex environment such as variable diameter pipeline and elbow.The steering characteristics passing through the elbow are studied,the kinematic of pipeline robot bending steering is established,the geometric constraint(GC)and steering constraint(SC)in the elbow are analyzed,and the steering experiment is conducted.The results show that the robot can pass through the elbow by the SC model.The SC model can reduce the motor current and energy consumption when the robot passes through the elbow.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51775323).
文摘In order to improve the elbow passing performance and different diameter adaptability of pipeline robot,a supported crawler pipeline robot is designed,which adopts screw nut mechanism and hinge four-bar mechanism to adapt to the complex environment such as variable diameter pipeline and elbow.The steering characteristics passing through the elbow are studied,the kinematic of pipeline robot bending steering is established,the geometric constraint(GC)and steering constraint(SC)in the elbow are analyzed,and the steering experiment is conducted.The results show that the robot can pass through the elbow by the SC model.The SC model can reduce the motor current and energy consumption when the robot passes through the elbow.
