期刊
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
卷 8, 期 12, 页码 7938-7945出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3324291
关键词
Deformable terrains; in-wheel measurement; sensorized transparent wheel; wheel-terrain interaction
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By using onboard sensorized transparent wheels, this study aims to monitor and characterize the interaction between wheels and terrains in real-time, eliminating the inaccuracies caused by model-based estimations and achieving robust off-road locomotion.
The off-road locomotion of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) over soft terrains can be quite challenging due to the complicated wheel-terrain interaction (WTI). To avoid unforeseen non-geometric hazards such as excessive sinkage or slippage, it is crucial to oversee these terrain-related uncertainties. However, determining the appropriate sensing principle for WTI and hazard prediction remains an open problem. This letter showcases an onboard sensorized transparent wheel concept (STW) aiming to explicitly characterize the WTI over deformable terrains for rovers. The STW configuration can provide directly in-wheel interaction views, thereby offering in-wheel measurement (IM) of WTI parameters and observations of soil flow simultaneously. Unlike traditional vision-based methods, this in-situ wheel vision can characterize the entire contact geometry distributions, eliminating complicated yet inaccurate model-based stochastic estimations. Consequently, it can achieve robust and real-time (30 Hz) performance even under complex motions. We conduct representative terrain experiments on a single-wheel testbed to verify the performance of our proposed STW system, and showcase its applicability as a terramechanics test tool to remodel WTI mechanics, as seen in https://youtu.be/aYKW1Pp4ENw.
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