Spherical Robots for Special Purposes: A Review on Current Possibilities

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21260%2F22%3A00356764" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21260/22:00356764 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041413" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041413</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22041413" target="_blank" >10.3390/s22041413</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spherical Robots for Special Purposes: A Review on Current Possibilities

Original language description

The review discusses the possibilities of different driving mechanisms and sensors of spherical robots, and a special kind of mobile robots is introduced and discussed. The sensors discussed can expand robots’ sensing capabilities which are typically very limited. Most spherical robots have holonomic characteristics and protect the inner environment using a shell. Today, there are a diversity of driving mechanisms. Therefore, this article provides a review of all of them and identifies their basic properties. Accordingly, many spherical robots have only inner sensors for moving, balancing, driving, etc. However, a few of them are also equipped with sensors that can measure environmental properties. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the possibility of using such sensors as cameras, LiDARs, thermocouples, and gas sensors, which can be used for special purposes underground, for example, in mines, underground tunnels, or road tunnels. After combining all components are combined, it is possible to design a special type of spherical robot designed for underground exploration, such as accidents in mines or road tunnels.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20204 - Robotics and automatic control

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sensors

ISSN

1424-8220

e-ISSN

1424-8220

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

36

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000762529000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85125062928