TY - CHAP
T1 - A Mobile Robot Which Locomotes on Walls to Interact with Rodents
AU - Yamada, Soichi
AU - Ishibashi, Keitaro
AU - Yokoyama, Hiroya
AU - Yanagi, Jiei
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
AU - Ishii, Hiroyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Rodents are often used in medicine, brain science, pharmacology, and psychology, as experimental animals. We have been proposing a novel method that involves usages of mobile robots as agents to interact with animals to understand animal behavior. A robot which is able to locomote not only on floors but also walls are strongly expected to increase the variety of behavioral experiments. The purpose of this study is to develop a new mobile robot which is able to locomote both on floor and on walls interacting with rats. For this purpose, we invented a novel mechanism which made a mobile robot locomote by wheels on iron walls. The mechanism consists of an active bending joint in the body, a passive tilting magnet, and a passive tilting tail. We implemented this mechanism into a new small mobile robot, named WR-7 (Waseda Rat No. 7). In this paper, proposed mechanism and its implementation are described.
AB - Rodents are often used in medicine, brain science, pharmacology, and psychology, as experimental animals. We have been proposing a novel method that involves usages of mobile robots as agents to interact with animals to understand animal behavior. A robot which is able to locomote not only on floors but also walls are strongly expected to increase the variety of behavioral experiments. The purpose of this study is to develop a new mobile robot which is able to locomote both on floor and on walls interacting with rats. For this purpose, we invented a novel mechanism which made a mobile robot locomote by wheels on iron walls. The mechanism consists of an active bending joint in the body, a passive tilting magnet, and a passive tilting tail. We implemented this mechanism into a new small mobile robot, named WR-7 (Waseda Rat No. 7). In this paper, proposed mechanism and its implementation are described.
KW - Interaction with animals
KW - Locomotion on wall
KW - Magnetic attraction
KW - Mechanical design
KW - Mobile robot
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-58380-4_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-58380-4_40
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85092357000
T3 - CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures
SP - 330
EP - 337
BT - CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -