| Author | Satawat Prakancharoen |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering in
Mechatronics
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| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Nowadays, robot has a very big role in human life such as industrial robot and medical robot, and also there are many design of the robot. Regarding on the work area such as muddy surface or high friction areas, some design might not be able to work perfectly to archive objectives and tasks of robot purpose. In that case, the spherical robot is introduced to solve the problem. The spherical robot is a novel mechanism design to move the robot in multiconditioned surfaces. Unlike other kind of legged or wheeled robots, the main feature that make a spherical different from other is a ground contact point which it is very small compare to other design. In principles, the spherical robot comprise of two DC motor to move forward and backward direction while robot’s heading is altered by the pendulum, which is actuated by another DC motor. To reach the desired position, the GPS (Global Positioning System) data is utilized as robot localization and robot’s orientation is estimated by 9-degrees of freedom IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) while user can supply the target GPS location and robot will reach to target position. |
| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Manukid Parnichkun |
| Examination Committee(s) | Abeykoon, A.M. Harsha S;Mongkol Ekpanyapong |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Royal Thai Government Fellowship |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) -- Asian Institute of Technology, 2017 |