TY - CHAP
T1 - New hydraulic components for tough robots
AU - Suzumori, Koichi
AU - Nabae, Hiroyuki
AU - Sakurai, Ryo
AU - Kanda, Takefumi
AU - Hyon, Sang Ho
AU - Ide, Tohru
AU - Hioki, Kiyohiro
AU - Ito, Kazu
AU - Inoue, Kiyoshi
AU - Hirota, Yoshiharu
AU - Yamamoto, Akina
AU - Ukida, Takahiro
AU - Morita, Ryusuke
AU - Hemmi, Morizo
AU - Ohno, Shingo
AU - Seno, Norihisa
AU - Osaki, Hayato
AU - Ofuji, Shoki
AU - Mizui, Harutsugu
AU - Taniai, Yuki
AU - Tanimoto, Sumihito
AU - Asao, Shota
AU - Faudzi, Ahmad Athif Mohd
AU - Yamamoto, Yohta
AU - Tadokoro, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
Fig. 8.52 Hand removing gravel from a collapsed rashed roof in the bucket mode (left) and lifting it up in hand mode (right) in the mockup of a disaster site Acknowledgements This research was funded by ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge Program of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan). The authors thank Yuken Kogyo Co., Ltd., KYOEI INDUSTRIES.CO., LTD., Pneumatic Servo Controls LTD., KAWAMOTO HEAVY INDUSTRIES co., ltd., MARUZEN KOGYO CO., LTD., ONO-DENKI CO., LTD., Weltec-sha Inc. Ltd., Hydraulic Robots Research Committee, Tokyo Keiki Inc., Fine Sinter Corp., Takako Inc., and Mori Kogyo, Ltd. for their support.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Hydraulic components have tremendous potential for realizing “tough robots” owing to their “tough features,” including high power density and shock resistance, although their practical robotic usage faces some challenges. This chapter explains a series of studies on hydraulic robot components, focusing on high output density, large generative force, shock resistance, and environmental resistance to investigate reducing size, increasing intelligence, lowering weight, achieving multiple degrees of freedom, and lowering sliding friction. The studies are based on past hydraulics technologies with the aim of permitting hydraulic actuator technologies to take important roles in achieving tough robots to operate at disaster sites and under other extreme environments. The studies consist of research and development of compact, lightweight, and high-output actuators; rotating high-torque motors; low-sliding cylinders and motors; power packs; high-output McKibben artificial muscles; particle-excitation-type control valves; hybrid boosters; and hydraulic control systems to be undertaken along with research on their application to tough robots.
AB - Hydraulic components have tremendous potential for realizing “tough robots” owing to their “tough features,” including high power density and shock resistance, although their practical robotic usage faces some challenges. This chapter explains a series of studies on hydraulic robot components, focusing on high output density, large generative force, shock resistance, and environmental resistance to investigate reducing size, increasing intelligence, lowering weight, achieving multiple degrees of freedom, and lowering sliding friction. The studies are based on past hydraulics technologies with the aim of permitting hydraulic actuator technologies to take important roles in achieving tough robots to operate at disaster sites and under other extreme environments. The studies consist of research and development of compact, lightweight, and high-output actuators; rotating high-torque motors; low-sliding cylinders and motors; power packs; high-output McKibben artificial muscles; particle-excitation-type control valves; hybrid boosters; and hydraulic control systems to be undertaken along with research on their application to tough robots.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-05321-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-05321-5_8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85061139884
T3 - Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
SP - 401
EP - 451
BT - Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -