Study on Mechanism Design and Posture Control of a Wheel-Legged Vehicle

Xiaolei Ren, Hui Liu*, Jiaoyang Xia, Weihe Hao, Qingyi Shang, Qian Chen

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new electric wheel-legged vehicle, which aims to improve the ability of unmanned mobile platform to perform multiple tasks in complex environment. The vehicle has the characteristics of both the leg-based system and wheel-based system, which has good obstacle crossing and fast-moving ability simultaneously. The structure form and function mode of the wheel-legged vehicle is designed. In order to analyze the overall motion of the vehicle, the kinematic model is established. The forward and inverse kinematics is calculated and the angle functions of each joint of the legs are presented. A set of posture control algorithm based on attitude analysis and inverse kinematics is designed for the vehicle, which is used to simulate the vehicle's height, roll and pitch motion. The simulation results preliminarily verify the rationality of mechanism design and the effectiveness of posture control.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Mechanical Design - The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023
EditorsJianrong Tan, Yu Liu, Hong-Zhong Huang, Jingjun Yu, Zequn Wang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages2085-2098
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9789819709212
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventInternational Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 20 Oct 202322 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameMechanisms and Machine Science
Volume155 MMS
ISSN (Print)2211-0984
ISSN (Electronic)2211-0992

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Mechanical Design, ICMD 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period20/10/2322/10/23

Keywords

  • Kinematic analysis
  • Mechanism design
  • Posture control
  • Wheel-legged vehicle

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