CN110936346A - Foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot which comprises a central rack, mechanical legs, a controller, a sensor, a laser radar, an intermediate connecting frame and a plurality of servo motors. The central frame is of a square frame structure, the mechanical legs are symmetrically arranged at four corners of the central frame respectively, one end of each mechanical leg is connected with the central frame through a transmission shaft, and the other end of each mechanical leg is connected with the driving wheel through a wheel bogie. The servo motors are respectively positioned at four corners of the central frame, and output shafts of the servo motors are fixedly connected with transmission shafts of the mechanical legs. The middle connecting frame is positioned on the upper part of the central machine frame, and the laser radar and the acceleration sensor are fixedly connected on the upper part of the middle connecting frame. The controller is arranged at the bottom of the central frame, receives signals of the servo motors and the sensors, sends out control instructions, and carries out closed-loop control on the servo motors and the driving wheels through the sensors. The robot has compact structure and strong stability of the robot body, and is suitable for high-speed operation under the condition of complex terrain.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of robots and automatic control, in particular to a foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot.
Background
Since the 60 s of the 20 th century, extensive research has been conducted on mobile robots both domestically and abroad. The passive suspension system equipped by the existing wheel type or crawler type mobile device can not lead the mobile robot to adapt to more complicated and rugged natural terrain. Recent technological developments have shown that legged walking devices have a high degree of adaptability to rough terrain. However, the leg-foot mechanism has a slow movement speed, requires a large energy consumption, and is more complicated to control. The characteristics of leg and foot walking and wheel type motion are combined to form the wheel and leg combined robot. The multi-functional robot has more movement modes, good terrain adaptability, higher moving speed, stronger movement stability and more flexible obstacle crossing capability. Therefore, the wheel-leg hybrid mobile robot is considered as the most promising high-performance mobile robot.
The wheel-leg robot has wide application range and is suitable for various occasions, namely unmanned or semi-automatic engineering machinery for accident rescue, mountain transportation and dangerous environment operation; a military robot facing a field environment; the engineering robot is constructed facing the extraterrestrial ground; the mobile robot for helping the old and the disabled faces the urban environment; the mobile robot faces to agricultural automation.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to avoid the defects in the prior art, the invention provides a foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot which has the characteristics of compact structure, strong movement capability and good stability of a robot body, can realize folding and storage of mechanical legs, has the capability of omnibearing running, can adjust the posture of the mechanical legs to control the wheel-ground contact force under the condition of non-structural terrain, has better ground contact force, improves the stability of the robot body, and is suitable for high-speed operation under the condition of complex terrain.
The invention solves the technical problems by adopting the technical scheme that the device comprises a central rack, mechanical legs, a controller, a servo motor, an acceleration sensor, a laser radar and an intermediate connecting frame, and is characterized in that the central rack is of a square frame structure, the mechanical legs are respectively and symmetrically arranged at four corners of the central rack, one end of each mechanical leg is connected with the central rack through a transmission shaft, and the other end of each mechanical leg is connected with a driving wheel through a wheel bogie; four groups of servo motors are respectively positioned on the central frame, and output shafts of the servo motors are fixedly connected with the transmission shaft; the controller is arranged at the bottom of the central rack, receives signals of the servo motors and the acceleration sensor, sends out a control instruction, and performs closed-loop control on each servo motor and each driving wheel through the acceleration sensor;
the mechanical leg comprises a leg root transverse swinging joint, a leg root connecting rod, a thigh joint, a thigh connecting rod, a knee joint, a knee connecting rod, a shank joint, a shank connecting rod, a wheel steering joint, a wheel bogie and a driving wheel, wherein the leg root transverse swinging joint comprises a first transmission shaft and a second transmission shaft, an output shaft of a first servo motor is fixedly connected with the first transmission shaft, the second transmission shaft is connected with the leg root connecting rod, the first transmission shaft and the second transmission shaft are connected and driven through a chain, so that the rotation shaft of the leg root transverse swinging joint is rotated, and the leg root connecting rod, the thigh connecting rod, the knee connecting rod, the shank connecting rod, the wheel bogie and the driving wheel are driven to swing on;
the thigh joint comprises a lead screw sliding table and a thigh connecting rod, the thigh connecting rod is respectively a thigh upper connecting rod, a thigh middle connecting rod and a thigh lower connecting rod, the lead screw sliding table, the thigh middle connecting rod and the thigh upper connecting rod are hinged in pairs to form a triangular structure, and the leg root connecting rod, the thigh upper connecting rod, the thigh lower connecting rod and the knee inner connecting rod are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure; the leg root connecting rod and the knee inner connecting rod are parallel to each other, the thigh upper connecting rod and the thigh lower connecting rod are parallel to each other, the second servo motor is connected with the thigh lead screw to drive the thigh lead screw to rotate and the lead screw sliding table to move up and down and drive the thigh connecting rod to rotate, and rotation of the thigh connecting rod, the knee connecting rod, the shank connecting rod and the wheel bogie on a vertical plane is realized; one end of the thigh screw force sensor is connected with the second servo motor, the other end of the thigh screw force sensor is connected with the thigh screw, and the thigh screw force sensor is used for measuring thigh joint force;
the knee joint is formed by hinging a knee inner connecting rod, a knee middle connecting rod and a knee outer connecting rod in pairs, rigid springs are arranged in the knee middle connecting rod side by side, and the knee joint plays a role in buffering;
the shank joint consists of a shank connecting rod and a shank electric cylinder; the lower leg connecting rod is provided with two basic units which are respectively an upper lower leg connecting rod and a lower leg connecting rod, the upper lower leg connecting rod and the lower leg connecting rod are parallel to each other, and the knee outer connecting rod, the upper lower leg connecting rod, the lower leg connecting rod and the wheel steering outer frame are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure; one end of the shank electric cylinder is hinged with the shank lower connecting rod, and the other end of the shank electric cylinder is hinged with the shank upper connecting rod; the shank electric cylinder is driven by a third servo motor, and the shank connecting rod, the wheel bogie and the driving wheel rotate on a vertical plane through linear motion of the electric cylinder; the shank electric cylinder force sensor is arranged at the tail end of the shank electric cylinder and is used for measuring shank joint force;
the wheel steering joint consists of a third transmission shaft and a fourth transmission shaft, the third transmission shaft is connected with the wheel steering outer frame, and the fourth transmission shaft is connected with the wheel steering frame; the fourth servo motor is connected with the third transmission shaft, the axes of the two shafts are perpendicular to the horizontal plane and parallel, and the two transmission shafts are connected through chain transmission to realize the swinging of the driving wheel on the horizontal plane.
The controller controls each servo motor of the mechanical leg to drive the angle values of the leg root yaw joint, the thigh joint and the shank joint, the posture of the mechanical leg can be adjusted, the wheel steering joint is controlled to change the advancing direction of the driving wheel, and the driving wheel is integrated with a wheel speed sensor to detect the traveling speed of the driving wheel.
The acceleration sensor is arranged on the central rack through the middle connecting frame and used for controlling the posture of the mechanical legs and adjusting the posture of the central rack to be horizontally placed.
The laser radar is installed on the central rack through the middle connecting frame and used for measuring the terrain of the surrounding environment.
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The invention provides a foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot which has three motion modes, namely a wheel type motion mode, a wheel-leg mixed motion mode and a leg-foot type motion mode. The controller controls the enabling and braking states of the driving wheels, and can conveniently realize the switching between a wheel mode and a leg mode. The wheels are provided with a drivable direct current motor and off-road tires, have multi-terrain omnidirectional movement capability, and when the vehicle runs on flat ground, the driving wheels work in an enabling state, and the controller controls the rotating speed of the driving wheels to realize wheel type movement; the fastest running speed can reach 20km/h when the robot moves in a wheel type, so that the four-wheel leg robot has high-speed maneuvering capability. When the vehicle runs on a rugged terrain, the driving wheels work in an enabling state, and the controller adjusts the postures of the four legs simultaneously according to the wheel-ground contact force obtained by the force sensor calculation, so that wheel-leg mixed motion is realized. When an obstacle is crossed, the driving wheel works in a braking state, the driving wheel cannot rotate, and the controller adjusts the postures of the four mechanical legs to realize leg-foot type movement. The controller judges the surrounding environment according to the laser radar data in the three motion modes, and finally the omnidirectional movement and obstacle crossing functions under various road conditions are achieved.
The foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot has the advantages that each wheel leg has 5 active degrees of freedom and 1 passive degree of freedom, the working space of the mechanical leg is large, the whole four-wheel leg is compact in structure and can be folded, the occupied area is greatly reduced, and the transportation and the storage are convenient;
the control method based on force position hybrid control can adjust the body to a horizontal posture according to an acceleration sensor in the center of the body, and calculates the wheel-ground contact force by thigh joint force and shank joint force, so that the wheel-ground contact type vehicle has better landing force when running on an uneven road surface and has good body stability;
because the fuselage platform can be adjusted to horizontal gesture in real time, and the space above the fuselage can carry on the load platform, the parallel four-bar linkage of machinery leg thigh connecting rod and shank connecting rod structure, each connecting rod basic unit is truss structure, and anti torsion capacity is strong in the bending resistance, has the ability of load task platform, can popularize and apply to multiple occasion.
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The foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot of the invention is further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the implementation mode.
Fig. 1 is a top view of the foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a mechanical leg of the foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a wheel steering joint of the foldable four-wheel legged obstacle crossing robot of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic view of a folding posture of a mechanical leg of the foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot according to the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a control process of the foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot according to the present invention.
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1. The four-leg robot comprises a central frame 2, a first mechanical leg 3, a second mechanical leg 4, a third mechanical leg 5, a fourth mechanical leg 6, a controller 7, an acceleration sensor 8, a laser radar 9, an intermediate connecting frame 10, a thigh lead screw 11, a first servo motor 12, a leg root horizontal swing joint 13, a leg root connecting rod 14, a thigh joint 15, a thigh lead screw force sensor 16, a second servo motor 17, a thigh connecting rod 18, a thigh upper connecting rod 19, a knee inner connecting rod 20, a knee middle connecting rod 21, a knee outer connecting rod 22, a shank joint 23, a shank connecting rod 24, a third servo motor 25, a shank upper connecting rod 26, a shank electric cylinder 27, a fourth servo motor 28, a fourth transmission shaft 29, a driving wheel 30, a shank lower connecting rod 31, a knee connecting rod 32, a shank electric cylinder force sensor 33, a knee joint 34, a thigh lower connecting rod 35, a thigh middle connecting rod 36, a lead screw sliding table 37, a second transmission The driving shaft 38, the first driving shaft 39, the wheel steering joint 40, the third driving shaft 41, the wheel steering outer frame 42 and the wheel steering frame
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The embodiment is a foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot.
Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the foldable four-wheel legged obstacle crossing robot of the present embodiment is composed of a central frame 1, mechanical legs, a controller 6, a servo motor, an acceleration sensor 7, a laser radar 8, and an intermediate connecting frame 9; the mechanical legs comprise a first mechanical leg 2, a second mechanical leg 3, a third mechanical leg 4 and a fourth mechanical leg 5; the servo motors include a first servo motor 11, a second servo motor 16, a third servo motor 24, and a fourth servo motor 27. The central frame 1 is a square frame structure; the middle connecting frame 9 is arranged at the upper part of the central machine frame, and the laser radar 8 and the acceleration sensor 7 are fixedly connected at the upper part of the middle connecting frame 9; the mechanical legs are symmetrically arranged at four corners of the central frame respectively, one end of each mechanical leg is connected with the central frame through a transmission shaft, and the other end of each mechanical leg is connected with the driving wheel 29 through a wheel bogie 42; four groups of servo motors are respectively arranged on the central frame, and output shafts of the servo motors are fixedly connected with the transmission shaft. The controller 6 is arranged at the bottom of the central frame 1, the controller 6 receives signals of the servo motor and the acceleration sensor 7, the controller 6 sends out a control instruction, and closed-loop control is carried out on each servo motor and each driving wheel through the acceleration sensor 7.
In the embodiment, the mechanical leg further comprises a leg root yaw joint 12, a leg root connecting rod 13, a thigh joint 14, a thigh connecting rod 17, a knee joint 33, a knee connecting rod 31, a shank joint 22, a shank connecting rod 23, a wheel steering joint 39, a wheel bogie 42 and a driving wheel 29; the leg root yaw joint 12 comprises a first transmission shaft 38 and a second transmission shaft 37, an output shaft of the first servo motor 11 is fixedly connected with the first transmission shaft 38, the second transmission shaft is connected with the leg root connecting rod 13, the first transmission shaft 38 and the second transmission shaft 37 are in chain connection transmission, the rotation shaft of the leg root yaw joint 12 is rotated, and the leg root connecting rod 13, the thigh connecting rod 17, the knee connecting rod 31, the shank connecting rod 23, the wheel bogie 42 and the active driving wheel 29 are driven to swing on the horizontal plane.
The thigh joint 14 comprises a lead screw sliding table 36 and a thigh connecting rod 17, the thigh connecting rods are a thigh upper connecting rod 18, a thigh middle connecting rod 35 and a thigh lower connecting rod 34 respectively, and the lead screw sliding table 36, the thigh middle connecting rod 35 and the thigh upper connecting rod 18 are hinged in pairs to form a triangular structure; the leg root connecting rod 13, the upper thigh connecting rod 18, the lower thigh connecting rod 34 and the knee inner connecting rod 19 are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure. Wherein, the thigh root connecting rod 13 and the knee inner connecting rod 19 are parallel to each other, and the thigh upper connecting rod 18 and the thigh lower connecting rod 34 are parallel to each other; the second servo motor 16 is connected with the thigh screw 10, drives the thigh screw 10 to rotate and the screw sliding table 36 to move up and down, and drives the thigh connecting rod 17 to rotate, so that the rotation of the thigh connecting rod 17, the knee connecting rod 31, the shank connecting rod 23 and the wheel bogie 42 on the vertical plane is realized. One end of the thigh screw force sensor 15 is connected with the second servo motor 16, and the other end is connected with the thigh screw 10 for measuring thigh joint force.
The knee joint 33 is formed by hinging the knee inner connecting rod 19, the knee middle connecting rod 20 and the knee outer connecting rod 32 in pairs; the knee joint 33 takes on a cushioning effect by placing stiff springs side by side in the knee.
The shank joint 22 consists of a shank connecting rod 23 and a shank electric cylinder 26; the shank connecting rod is provided with two basic units, namely a shank upper connecting rod 25 and a shank lower connecting rod 30, wherein the shank upper connecting rod 25 and the shank lower connecting rod 30 are parallel to each other; the knee outer connecting rod 21, the shank upper connecting rod 25, the shank lower connecting rod 30 and the wheel steering outer frame 41 are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure. One end of the shank electric cylinder 26 is hinged with the shank lower connecting rod 30, and the other end of the shank electric cylinder 26 is hinged with the shank upper connecting rod 25. The lower leg electric cylinder 26 is driven by the third servo motor 24, and the rotation of the lower leg link 23, the wheel bogie 42, and the drive wheel 29 in the vertical plane is realized by the linear motion of the electric cylinder. The shank electric cylinder force sensor 32 is arranged at the cylinder tail end of the shank electric cylinder 26 and is used for measuring shank joint force.
The wheel steering joint 39 consists of a third transmission shaft, a fourth transmission shaft 28 and a fourth servo motor 27, the third transmission shaft 40 is fixedly connected with a wheel steering outer frame 41, and the fourth transmission shaft 28 is fixedly connected with a wheel steering frame 42; the fourth servo motor 27 is connected with the third transmission shaft 40, and the axes of the two shafts are vertical to the horizontal plane and parallel. The third transmission shaft 40 and the fourth transmission shaft 28 are connected through chain transmission, and the driving wheels swing on the horizontal plane.
The controller 6 controls each servo motor of the mechanical leg to drive the leg root yaw joint 12, the thigh joint 14 and the shank joint 22 to adjust the posture of the mechanical leg, controls the wheel steering joint 39 to change the advancing direction of the driving wheel 29, and integrates a wheel speed sensor into the driving wheel 29 to detect the running speed.
The acceleration sensor 7 is arranged at the middle part of the central frame through the middle connecting frame 9, and the acceleration sensor 7 is used for controlling the posture of the mechanical legs and adjusting the posture of the central frame to be horizontally placed.
The lidar 8 is mounted on a central frame via an intermediate link 9, the lidar being adapted to measure the surrounding terrain.
The present embodiment is described by taking the first mechanical leg 2 as an example, and the controller 6 thereof receives signals of the thigh screw force sensor 15 and the shank electric cylinder force sensor 32, obtains the calculated wheel-ground contact force, and compares the calculated wheel-ground contact force with the expected wheel-ground contact force redistributed by the model. The controller 6 receives the pulse number of each servo motor, controls the motor position, controls the first servo motor 11 to rotate, realizes the rotation of the leg root yaw joint 12 on the horizontal plane, and enables the leg root yaw joint 12 to reach a desired angle value. And controlling the second servo motor 16 to rotate, so as to realize the rotation of the thigh joint 14 in a vertical plane, and enabling the thigh joint 14 to reach a desired angle value. And controlling the third servo motor 24 to rotate, and controlling the rotation of the lower leg joint 22 in a vertical plane to enable the lower leg joint 22 to reach a desired angle value. The fourth servo motor 28 is controlled to rotate, so that the rotation of the wheel steering joint 39 on the horizontal plane is realized, the wheel steering joint 39 reaches a desired angle value, the attitude control of the mechanical leg is realized, the wheel contact force of the mechanical leg is equal to the wheel contact force of the desired wheel, the control of the ground contact force of the driving wheel 29 is realized, and the motion of the mechanical leg has better flexibility.
The controller 6 receives data of the acceleration sensor 7, controls the postures of the first mechanical leg 2, the second mechanical leg 3, the third mechanical leg 4 and the fourth mechanical leg 5 at the same time, keeps the posture of the machine body horizontal, and simultaneously performs force and position hybrid control, so that the central frame 1 has better horizontal stability during driving.
When the robot stops working, the controller 6 controls the thigh joints to 3 degrees, and at the moment, the upper included angle between the thigh connecting rod and the vertical plane is 3 degrees; controlling the shank joint to 177 degrees, wherein the upper included angle between the shank connecting rod and the vertical plane is 177 degrees; the joints of the root parts are controlled to 135 degrees, and the mechanical legs are parallel to the side surface of the central frame, so that the four-wheel leg type robot can be folded and stored.
The foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot has three motion modes, namely a wheel type motion mode, a wheel-leg mixed motion mode and a leg-foot type motion mode. The controller 6 judges the surrounding environment according to the data of the laser radar 8 in the three motion modes, and the controller 6 controls the enabling and braking states of the driving wheels 29, so that the conversion between the wheel mode and the leg mode can be conveniently realized; the omnidirectional movement and obstacle crossing functions under various road conditions are realized.
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(1) The controller 6 receives data of each sensor and the servo motor, confirms whether the robot is in a folding state, controls the postures of the first mechanical leg 2, the second mechanical leg 3, the third mechanical leg 4 and the fourth mechanical leg 5 if the robot is in the folding state, adjusts the posture of the central frame 1 to be in a horizontal state, adjusts the angle of the wheel steering joint 39 of the mechanical leg, ensures the omnidirectional movement capability and can continuously receive movement instructions.
(2) The controller 6 receives data of the laser radar 8, scans the field environment, determines a wheel type, leg-foot type or wheel-leg mixed type motion mode, adjusts the posture of the central frame 1 to be in a horizontal state, adjusts the angle of the mechanical leg wheel steering joint 39, ensures that the omnidirectional motion capability is realized, and can continuously receive motion instructions.
(3) After a load is placed on the robot, the controller 6 receives data of the acceleration sensor 7, controls the postures of the four mechanical legs, adjusts the postures of the central frame 1 to be in a horizontal state, adjusts the angle of the wheel steering joint 39 of the mechanical legs, ensures that the robot has omnidirectional movement capability, and can continuously receive movement instructions.
(4) When an obstacle appears in the motion of the robot, the controller 6 judges whether the obstacle can be crossed according to the working space, controls the angle of the wheel steering joint 39 of the mechanical leg to bypass the obstacle if the obstacle cannot be crossed, controls the postures and the tail end positions of the first mechanical leg 2, the second mechanical leg 3, the third mechanical leg 4 and the fourth mechanical leg 5 if the obstacle can be crossed, and crosses the obstacle through foot type motion. The controller 6 adjusts the posture of the central frame 1 to a horizontal state, adjusts the angle of the steering joint 39 of the wheels of the mechanical legs, ensures the omnidirectional movement capability and can continuously receive movement instructions.
(5) After the robot stops moving, the controller 6 controls the postures and the tail end positions of the first mechanical leg 2, the second mechanical leg 3, the third mechanical leg 4 and the fourth mechanical leg 5 to fold the wheel-leg type mobile platform to the mechanical leg folding posture.
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1. A foldable four-wheel leg type obstacle crossing robot comprises a central rack, mechanical legs, a controller, a servo motor, an acceleration sensor, a laser radar and a middle connecting frame, and is characterized in that the central rack is of a square frame structure, the mechanical legs are symmetrically arranged at four corners of the central rack respectively, one ends of the mechanical legs are connected with the central rack through transmission shafts, and the other ends of the mechanical legs are connected with driving wheels through wheel bogies; four groups of servo motors are respectively positioned on the central frame, and output shafts of the servo motors are fixedly connected with the transmission shaft; the controller is arranged at the bottom of the central rack, receives signals of the servo motors and the acceleration sensor, sends out a control instruction, and performs closed-loop control on each servo motor and each driving wheel through the acceleration sensor;
the mechanical leg comprises a leg root transverse swinging joint, a leg root connecting rod, a thigh joint, a thigh connecting rod, a knee joint, a knee connecting rod, a shank joint, a shank connecting rod, a wheel steering joint, a wheel bogie and a driving wheel, wherein the leg root transverse swinging joint comprises a first transmission shaft and a second transmission shaft, an output shaft of a first servo motor is fixedly connected with the first transmission shaft, the second transmission shaft is connected with the leg root connecting rod, the first transmission shaft and the second transmission shaft are connected and driven through a chain, so that the rotation shaft of the leg root transverse swinging joint is rotated, and the leg root connecting rod, the thigh connecting rod, the knee connecting rod, the shank connecting rod, the wheel bogie and the driving wheel are driven to swing on;
the thigh joint comprises a lead screw sliding table and a thigh connecting rod, the thigh connecting rod is respectively a thigh upper connecting rod, a thigh middle connecting rod and a thigh lower connecting rod, the lead screw sliding table, the thigh middle connecting rod and the thigh upper connecting rod are hinged in pairs to form a triangular structure, and the leg root connecting rod, the thigh upper connecting rod, the thigh lower connecting rod and the knee inner connecting rod are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure; the leg root connecting rod and the knee inner connecting rod are parallel to each other, the thigh upper connecting rod and the thigh lower connecting rod are parallel to each other, the second servo motor is connected with the thigh lead screw to drive the thigh lead screw to rotate and the lead screw sliding table to move up and down and drive the thigh connecting rod to rotate, and rotation of the thigh connecting rod, the knee connecting rod, the shank connecting rod and the wheel bogie on a vertical plane is realized; one end of the thigh screw force sensor is connected with the second servo motor, the other end of the thigh screw force sensor is connected with the thigh screw, and the thigh screw force sensor is used for measuring thigh joint force;
the knee joint is formed by hinging a knee inner connecting rod, a knee middle connecting rod and a knee outer connecting rod in pairs, rigid springs are arranged in the knee middle connecting rod side by side, and the knee joint plays a role in buffering;
the shank joint consists of a shank connecting rod and a shank electric cylinder; the lower leg connecting rod is provided with two basic units which are respectively an upper lower leg connecting rod and a lower leg connecting rod, the upper lower leg connecting rod and the lower leg connecting rod are parallel to each other, and the knee outer connecting rod, the upper lower leg connecting rod, the lower leg connecting rod and the wheel steering outer frame are hinged in pairs to form a parallelogram structure; one end of the shank electric cylinder is hinged with the shank lower connecting rod, and the other end of the shank electric cylinder is hinged with the shank upper connecting rod; the shank electric cylinder is driven by a third servo motor, and the shank connecting rod, the wheel bogie and the driving wheel rotate on a vertical plane through linear motion of the electric cylinder; the shank electric cylinder force sensor is arranged at the tail end of the shank electric cylinder and is used for measuring shank joint force;
the wheel steering joint consists of a third transmission shaft and a fourth transmission shaft, the third transmission shaft is connected with the wheel steering outer frame, and the fourth transmission shaft is connected with the wheel steering frame; the fourth servo motor is connected with the third transmission shaft, the axes of the two shafts are perpendicular to the horizontal plane and parallel, and the two transmission shafts are connected through chain transmission to realize the swinging of the driving wheel on the horizontal plane.
2. The foldable four-wheel legged obstacle crossing robot according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls each servo motor of the mechanical leg to drive the angle values of the leg yaw joint, the thigh joint and the shank joint, so as to adjust the posture of the mechanical leg, control the wheel steering joint to change the advancing direction of the driving wheel, and the driving wheel is integrated with a wheel speed sensor to detect the traveling speed.
3. The foldable four-wheel legged obstacle crossing robot according to claim 1, wherein the acceleration sensor is mounted on the center frame through an intermediate connection frame, and the acceleration sensor is used for controlling the posture of the mechanical legs and adjusting the posture of the center frame to a horizontal position.
4. The foldable four-wheel legged obstacle crossing robot according to claim 1, wherein the lidar is mounted on the central frame via an intermediate link, the lidar being adapted to measure the terrain of the surrounding environment.
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