Advanced Stair Climbing Robot

Electronics and Telecommunication

The advances of robotic applications in human life, it is necessary to overcome natural and virtual obstacles such as stairs which are the most known obstacles to the motion of such robots. Several researches have been conducted toward the design of stair climbing and obstacle traversing robots during the past decade. A number of robots have robots have been built for climbing stairs and traversing obstacles, such as quadruped and hexapod robots. Although these robots can climb stairs and traverse obstacles, they do not have smooth motion on flat surfaces, which is due to the motion of their legs. Buehler built a hexapod robot that could ascend and descend stairs dynamically. There is an enormous variety of walking robots in the world today. Most of them have six legs to maintain good static stability, many have 8 legs for greater speed and higher load capacity and there are some that implement clever balancing algorithms which allow them to walk on two legs to move over sloping ground and to climb up and down stairs, like humans do Rough-terrain robot navigation has received a significant amount of attention recently, most prominently showcased to the broader public by the success of current Mars rover missions.

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