Motor Sizing for Legged Robots Using Dynamic Task Specification

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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motor sizing
locomotion
intermittent
continuous
thermal
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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De, Avik
Lynch, Goran
Johnson, Aaron
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We explore an approach to incorporating task and motor thermal dynamics in the selection of actuators for legged robots, using both analytical and simulation methods. We develop a motor model with a thermal component and apply it to a vertical climbing task; in the process, we optimally choose gear ratio and therefore eliminate it as a design parameter. This approach permits an analytical proof that continuous operation yields superior thermal performance to intermittent operation. We compare the results of motor sizing using our proposed method with more conventional techniques such as using the continuously permissible current specification. Our simulations are run across a database of commercially available motors, and we envision that our results might be of immediate use to robot designers for motor as well as gearbox selection.

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2011-04-11
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De, A., Lynch, G., Johnson, A., Koditschek, D. (2011). "Motor sizing for legged robots using dynamic task specification," IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2011, pp.64-69, 11-12 April 2011. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753483 © 2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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