Spherical robot having tumbling and jumping functions

Abstract

The invention discloses a spherical robot having tumbling and jumping functions. The spherical robot comprises a spherical housing, a base, a tumbling mechanism and a jumping mechanism. The tumbling mechanism and the jumping mechanism are mounted in the spherical housing. The top at one side of the spherical housing is equipped with a camera. Two sides of the spherical housing are equipped with a voice recognition card. The spherical housing is further equipped with a control module therein. A signal input end of the control module is connected with the camera and the voice recognition card. A signal output end of the control module is connected with control ends of the tumbling mechanism and the jumping mechanism. The tumbling mechanism and the jumping mechanism are mounted in the sealed spherical housing, the spherical housing is mounted cooperatively with the base, when the spherical robot is in use, the jumping mechanism adopts an extension spring for energy storage, after the extension spring is released, a bottom plate of the jumping mechanism drives a counterweight to move upward rapidly, and jumping is achieved after the counterweight is hit, meanwhile, a tumbling wheel train is mounted on the bottom plate, the tumbling motion of the spherical robot can be realized by tumbling a motor to drive the counterweight to rotate, and the operation stability of the robot is maintained.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of robots, in particular to a spherical robot with rolling and jumping functions. Background technique [0002] Robots are being used more and more widely and are playing an increasingly important role in place of humans. With the expansion of the scope of application, the working environment faced by robots is getting worse and worse, such as interstellar exploration, military reconnaissance and anti-terrorism activities. In these application fields, the terrain is often very complex, there are various obstacles or ditches, and sometimes there are dangers, which requires the robot to have strong mobility and flexibility. [0003] At present, there are two main modes of motion for mobile robots. One is driven by wheels or tracks, and the other is bionic crawling or walking. Wheel or crawler-driven robots can only work on relatively flat terrain, and once the terrain is uneven, its movement will be greatly...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] Although the existing spherical robot can achieve smooth tumbling motion, the jumping mechanism is too complicated, the jumping process is inconsistent, prone to overturning, and the stability is poor, which is not conducive to the camera to collect images

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