Main areas:
- service robotics and AI-based robotics control
- educational robotics, robotic designers
The Tetrabot walking platform for service robotics consists of unique wheel-stepping movers that provide high cross-country ability, debris, rubbish heaps, ditches, as well as staircases. The developed kinematics makes it possible to ensure high clearance and low vibrations both vertically and in the linear velocity of reference points. Analysis and calculations show a significant advantage of these walking modules over biomorphic propulsion systems in terms of energy efficiency and traction characteristics. Energy efficiency is provided by fewer marching engines (one versus three for biomorphic on each limb) and the absence of idle movements while walking.
Traction characteristics are higher due to the fact that at any time each walking walking module of Tetrabot has effective contact with the surface, while robots with biomorphic propulsion devices have contact with the surface during movement only half of their limbs. The robots created on the basis of the Tetrabot walking platform and an autonomous system for adapting to difficult terrain will be in demand in the mining, forestry and agricultural industries, in housing and communal services – for robotic cleaning of territories and flights of stairs, in landfills for primary sorting of garbage, in the Ministry of Emergencies – for searching and salvation of people in the rubble, and in the future for the active development of the Arctic and other planets. To fulfill these and other goals, it will be possible to install the necessary attachments on our walking platform, due to which the walking platform can be transformed into a specialized industrial robot.