Long journey continuing wind power driven type spherical robot in polar region

Abstract

The invention discloses a long journey continuing wind power driven type spherical robot in the polar region. The robot comprises a double-layer flexible airbag spherical shell, a plurality of pull cords, a solar film, an interior rigid spherical shell, four supporting pipes and spring damping devices, wherein an interior spherical shell and an exterior spherical shell of the double-layer flexible airbag spherical shell are connected through the evenly distributed pull cords, and an independent air cavity is formed in the double-layer flexible airbag spherical shell; the interior rigid spherical shell is located in the center of a sphere and connected with the interior flexible spherical shell through all the supporting pipes, and a control system and a power module are arranged in the interior rigid spherical shell; the solar film is installed on the inner spherical wall of the double-layer flexible airbag spherical shell and connected with the power module in the rigid spherical shell; the supporting pipes are hollow, and each supporting pipe is connected with the corresponding spring damping device. The robot is driven through wind power in a passive mode, energy is provided through solar energy, and the robot has good environment adaptability and long journey continuing characteristic and can be widely applied to detection in unknown environments such as the polar region and the like.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a polar long-endurance wind-driven spherical robot, which is a flexible surface spherical robot that can be applied to the polar environment for long-endurance detection. Background technique [0002] The polar environment is an environment of low temperature, low light and strong wind, which has great strategic significance for the detection of polar regions. To explore polar environments, intelligent robotic applications are receiving a lot of attention. How to realize the robot's long-endurance detection work in the polar environment is a research problem, the key lies in the way of obtaining the robot's energy and environmental adaptability and other indicators. [0003] Among them, as a novel mobile robot, the spherical robot has a certain ability to adapt to the field and is not easy to overturn and fail compared with the traditional wheeled, crawler or legged mobile robots. The research work on spherical robots has bee...

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Problems solved by technology

The controllability of the trolley is poor; the counterweight form requires multiple motors to drive, and the load is too large; the electromagnetic drive requires a very precise structure; the disadvantage of wind drive is poor load capacity and excessive reliance on wind energy

At present, the spherical robots used are basically hard material spherical shells, which are basically in point contact with the ground, and the contact surface is small, which requires high control precision; the active spherical robot has too much load when it is large in size, which is not conducive to the polar environment. The adaptation of wind-driven spherical robots is uncontrollable in polar regions with sufficient wind energy. In order to obtain more detection data, long battery life has become an important indicator

Chinese invention patent ZL200810017895.4 discloses "a spherical robot for environmental detection driven by wind with various modes of movement". Unable to achieve long endurance and long-distance field polar operation needs

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