Design and Modeling of a Spherical Robot Actuated by a Cylindrical Drive

Bruno Belzile,David St-Onge,Bruno Belzile,David St-Onge

Rolling spherical robots have been studied in the past few years as an alternative to legged and wheeled robots in unstructured environments. These systems are of uttermost interest for space exploration: fast, robust to collision and able to handle various terrain topologies. This paper introduces a novel barycentric spherical robot, dubbed the Autonomous Robotic Intelligent Explorer Sphere (ARIE...