Shigeo Hirose — accepted AI-conference papers

2016

R-Crank: Amphibious all terrain mobile robot

Shintaro Yamada, Shigeo Hirose, Gen Endo, Koichi Suzumori, Hiroyuki Nabae

IROS 2016poster

An amphibious all terrain mobile robot is required for disaster response tasks. In this paper, we propose “R-Crank”, which has a simple four wheels driving configuration with crank links, connecting to ipsilateral front and rear wheels so as to form parallel four-bar linkage systems. The crank links…

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2015

Study of swing-grouser wheel: A wheel for climbing high steps, even in low friction environment

Hirotaka Komura, Hiroya Yamada, Shigeo Hirose, Gen Endo, Koichi Suzumori

IROS 2015poster

Generally, wheel mechanisms are inferior to a tracked or walking mechanism in terms of step climbability or traversability in rough terrain; however, they are superior in terms of energy efficiency, structural simplicity, and carrying capacity. This paper proposes a new wheel mechanism, the swing-gr…

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