Published in Journal of Industrial Engineering and Robotics, Volume 5, Number 1
Written by TÎRSÎNA Nicoleta
Scientific coordinators: Ștefan SOROHAN

ROMERIN Hexapod climbing robot is currently face a significant problem in the uncertain orientation of the suction cup. The final objective of the project consists of the mechanical updating of the Romerin hexapod design. The main idea is to change the universal joint in the final part of the leg with a mechanism that allows it to maintain a fixed orientation of the suction cup. To achieve that, by using Autodesk Inventor, a design of a mechanical prosthesis that allows to be integrated in the current robot is required. Therefore, the work of designing, modeling and simulating of the mechanical prosthesis on the robot is carried out on a single “leg” of the robot. The final design solution of the prosthesis it was considered as the combination of two planar mechanisms and the analysis and design was implemented leg by leg, using the classical methods used in the planar mechanisms. Its analysis and design will be simple and effective.

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