A survey on mechanical solutions for hybrid mobile robots

M Russo, M Ceccarelli - Robotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a survey on mobile robots as systems that can move in different
environments with walking, flying and swimming up to solutions that combine those …

Origami wheel transformer: A variable-diameter wheel drive robot using an origami structure

DY Lee, SR Kim, JS Kim, JJ Park, KJ Cho - Soft robotics, 2017 - liebertpub.com
A wheel drive mechanism is simple, stable, and efficient, but its mobility in unstructured
terrain is seriously limited. Using a deformable wheel is one of the ways to increase the …

-WaLTR: Adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot for Versatile Multiterrain Locomotion

C Zheng, S Sane, K Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptability is a fundamental yet challenging requirement for mobile robot locomotion. This
article presents-WaLTR, a new adaptive wheel-and-leg transformable robot for versatile …

Q‐Whex: A simple and highly mobile quasi‐wheeled hexapod robot

G Zhang, S Ma, J Liu, X Zeng, L Kong… - Journal of field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the design and control of Q‐Whex, an untethered, quasi‐wheeled
hexapod robot. Q‐Whex has only six actuators—one motor located at each hip—achieving …

A transformable wheel-legged mobile robot: Design, analysis and experiment

T Sun, X Xiang, W Su, H Wu, Y Song - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new type of transformable wheel-legged mobile robot that could be
applied on both flat and rugged terrains. It integrates stability and maneuverability of …

FUHAR: A transformable wheel-legged hybrid mobile robot

İ Mertyüz, AK Tanyıldızı, B Taşar, AB Tatar… - Robotics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a mobile robot with a new type of transformable wheel legs that can
be used for flat and rough terrain. It integrates the stability and maneuverability of a wheeled …

TurboQuad: A novel leg–wheel transformable robot with smooth and fast behavioral transitions

WH Chen, HS Lin, YM Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This report is on the design, control strategy, implementation, and performance evaluation of
a novel leg-wheel transformable robot called TurboQuad, which can perform fast gait/mode …

Adaptive morphology: A design principle for multimodal and multifunctional robots

S Mintchev, D Floreano - IEEE Robotics & Automation …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Morphology plays an important role in behavioral and locomotion strategies of living and
artificial systems. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not …

An optional passive/active transformable wheel-legged mobility concept for search and rescue robots

L Bai, J Guan, X Chen, J Hou, W Duan - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2018 - Elsevier
A novel transformable wheel-legged robot, namely Land Devil Ray (LDR), is proposed for
search and rescue mission in complex terrains. Inspired from spatial folding mechanism and …

Design and analysis of a multi-mode mobile robot based on Schatz linkages

S Yao, R Liu, Y Yao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel multi-mode mobile robot based on the Schatz linkage is proposed. The
robot consists of four Schatz linkages, which are distributed at the four corners of the robot …