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Design of a mechanism with embedded suspension to reconfigure the agri_q locomotion layout

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العنوان: Design of a mechanism with embedded suspension to reconfigure the agri_q locomotion layout
المؤلفون: Visconte C., Cavallone P., Carbonari L., Botta A., Quaglia G.
المساهمون: Visconte, C., Cavallone, P., Carbonari, L., Botta, A., Quaglia, G.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Università Politecnica delle Marche: IRIS
مصطلحات موضوعية: Agricultural robot, Agri_q, Mobile robot, Precision agriculture, Service robotic, Suspension, Sustainability, UGV
الوصف: The Agri_q is an electric unmanned ground vehicle specifically designed for precision agriculture applications. Since it is expected to traverse on unstructured terrain, especially uneven terrain, or to climb obstacles or slopes, an eight-wheeled locomotion layout, with each pair of wheels supported by a bogie, has been chosen. The wide contact surface between the vehicle and the ground ensures a convenient weight distribution; furthermore, the bogie acts like a filter with respect to ground irregularities, reducing the transmissibility of the oscillations. Nevertheless, this locomotion layout entails a substantial lateral slithering along curved trajectories, which results in an increase of the needed driving torque. Therefore, reducing the number of ground contact points to compare the torque adsorption in different configurations, namely four, six, or eight wheels, could be of interest. This paper presents a reconfiguration mechanism able to modify the Agri_q locomotion layout by lifting one of the two wheels carried by the bogie and to activate, at the same time, a suspension device. The kinematic synthesis of the mechanism and the dynamic characteristics of the Agri_q suspended front module are presented.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000633081800001; volume:10; issue:1; numberofpages:14; journal:ROBOTICS; https://hdl.handle.net/11566/296815; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85099396656
DOI: 10.3390/robotics10010015
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/11566/296815
https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics10010015
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.E720005
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3390/robotics10010015