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Design and development of jamming-based stiffness-adjustable wheel on soft terrain
Traversing soft terrain poses a major challenge for planetary wheeled rovers, and various studies have demonstrated ways to enhance rover mobility by transforming the wheel structure or adjusting the wheel’s stiffness, which results in a change in wheel contact area on the terrain. This paper presents a novel idea using the jamming mechanism for modulating the wheel’s stiffness. The developed wheel consists of the core body, wheel outer rim, inner flexure, and cable tension mechanism. The jamming mechanism is realized by adjusting the cable tension inserted between the outer rim of the wheel. The wheel stiffness measuement test confirms that the wheel with low stiffness can reduce its stiffness for 75% of the high stiffness configuration. The wheel’s traversability on soft terrain are also evaluated based on slip ratio and current consumption. The results demonstrate that the lower-stiffness configuration outperforms the higher-stiffness wheel under various conditions. These findings, being consistent with previous works on flexible wheels, highlight the potential benefits of the jamming-based stiffness-adjustable wheel for rough terrain traverse with various payload conditions.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Terramechanics is primarily devoted to scientific articles concerned with research, design, and equipment utilization in the field of terramechanics.
The Journal of Terramechanics is the leading international journal serving the multidisciplinary global off-road vehicle and soil working machinery industries, and related user community, governmental agencies and universities.
The Journal of Terramechanics provides a forum for those involved in research, development, design, innovation, testing, application and utilization of off-road vehicles and soil working machinery, and their sub-systems and components. The Journal presents a cross-section of technical papers, reviews, comments and discussions, and serves as a medium for recording recent progress in the field.