Design of morphological changing all-terrain-rover for enhancing mobility

Abstract

This paper proposes a design of morphological changing all-terrain-rover as new concept of hybrid-type of mobile robot for enhancing mobility. Mobility evaluation is performed by mechanical theories, and its calculating methods are used for simulations. A feasibility of suggested design of all-terrain-rover is investigated by simulations. The feasibility is able to verify by performance error from simulation results, and it shows that proposed rover can overcome a mobility limitation of former designed rovers.