The Research and Development of Water Stride Robot Control System

摘要

A novel bionic mechanical water strider robot control system was put forward through researching the walking function of an insect water strider using paddling mechanism.The Single Chip Computer was introduced as the core controller.The robot was driven by three min-electromagnets and the driving mechanism of its leg was designed based on slider-crank mechanism and parallel mechanism,which achieves robot control.The robot control idea and the design of software and hardware of control system was illuminated.The performance of the prototype of the robot walking on water surface under the laboratory environment was studied.The experimental result indicates that the designed water strider robot can walk go-forward and turn-row on water surface,which has good control effect.