Hongyan Tang

Fudan University

Dan Zhang

York University

James M. Zhang

McMaster University

Abstract

Two-wheeled self-balancing robot (TWSBR) is a mobile robot with a widely application in security, rescue, entertainment and other fields. To make the robot obtain a larger range of the controllable inclination angle, a reconfigurable mechanism of moment of inertia is designed for the TWSBR, and the energy consumption of the reconfigurable mechanism is reduced by a gravity compensation mechanism. This paper constructs a virtual equivalent parallel mechanism (VEPM) to model the robot-ground system combining the robot and the ground. The kinematics, dynamic model and performance indexes of the VEPM are solved based on the vector method, the Lagrangian dynamics and the screw theory. Then, the dimensions of the mechanism are optimized based on the comprehensive performance analysis. Finally, the effectiveness of the optimization algorithm and gravity compensation mechanism is verified through simulation and motion experiments. The performance analysis and optimal design approaches proposed in this paper have positive significance for the systematic modeling and optimal design of two-wheeled and two-legged robots.

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