Design of a Micro Piezo Actuated Gripper for a Swarm Robotic System

Date

2016-07-31

Author

Kaygusuz, Batuhan
Turgut, Ali Emre

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

1
views

0
downloads

In this paper, we introduced a novel micro swarm robotic platform, called the AttaBot, designed specifically for complex systems and swarm robotics research. The novelty of the AttaBot platform is two-folds. (1) Artificial pheromones are implemented, (2) Each AttaBot has a gripper to grip small discs on the ground. In this way, AttaBot platform can be used in many different swarm scenarios including foraging, collective motion and collective transport. We introduced the design of the AttaBot, focusing mainly on the gripper design. We designed a novel gripper using off-the-shelf piezostack materials. We simulated the performance of the gripper using COMSOL and depicted the results. We showed that the current design with the proper piezostack material is feasible and it can used in AttaBot.

Subject Keywords

Piezogripper, Piezostack, Piezo Actuated Mechanisms, Ultrasonic Motors, Swarm Robotics

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55754

Collections

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Conference / Seminar