A novel design of anti-falling mechanism for tree pruning robot

Pengfei Gui; Liqiong Tang; Subhas Mukhopadhyay

doi:10.1109/ICIEA.2015.7334222

A novel design of anti-falling mechanism for tree pruning robot

Pengfei Gui, Liqiong Tang, Subhas Mukhopadhyay

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Abstract

This paper presents a mechanism of a novel tree pruning robot that is designed to climb up a tree. The unique feature of the proposed design is the passive and active anti-falling mechanism. The passive anti-falling mechanism relies on the frictional forces to overcome the robot gravity force while the active anti-falling function uses the power provided by two steppers that is able to adjust the normal forces between the tire surfaces of the wheels and the tree trunk. The design of the pruning robot is modelled in SolidWorks and simulated using Simmechanics. The outcome of the simulation matches with the analysis result.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	812-816
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467373173, 9781479983896
ISBN (Print)	9781479984671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEA.2015.7334222
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015 - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 15 Jun 2015 → 17 Jun 2015

Other

Other	10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015
Country	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Period	15/06/15 → 17/06/15

Keywords

tree pruning
robot climbing mechanism
antifalling mechanism

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Gui, P, Tang, L & Mukhopadhyay, S 2015, A novel design of anti-falling mechanism for tree pruning robot. in Proceedings of the 2015 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 812-816, 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, 15/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEA.2015.7334222

A novel design of anti-falling mechanism for tree pruning robot. / Gui, Pengfei; Tang, Liqiong; Mukhopadhyay, Subhas.

Proceedings of the 2015 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015). Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015. p. 812-816.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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