Motion Planning Strategies for IMPASS

Shawn Kimmel

Motion Planning Strategies for IMPASS
Format
Paperback
Publisher
VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG
Country
Germany
Published
3 April 2009
Pages
108
ISBN
9783639133189

Motion Planning Strategies for IMPASS

Shawn Kimmel

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IMPASS is a novel spoke-wheel robot invented by researchers at the Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech. The robot is driven by a rimless spoke wheel which can alter the length of any given spoke in the hub. This form of novel locomotion combines the efficiency of a wheeled robot and the mobility of a legged robot, arriving at a very practical mobility platform. A highly mobile robot such as IMPASS could prove very valuable in applications where the terrain is complex and dangerous, such as search and rescue, reconnaissance, or anti-terror response. A prototype has been constructed that effectively demonstrates the actuated spoke wheel concept using two wheels containing six spokes each. Manually controlling the motion of two wheels and twelve spokes would be a daunting task for any operator. Due to this inherent complexity, automated motion control is a necessity for the IMPASS platform. The work presented here will discuss approaches to the motion planning problem for the two-dimensional sagittal plane. In addition to the theory behind the algorithms, the work will also present results from testing in simulation and on an IMPASS prototype.

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