Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot

This paper presents the water strider robot design with polystyrene foam-based leg tip approach. With reference to the biological size and flexible maneuverability of water strider this robot suitable to be applied as autonomous instrumentation unit for water quality monitoring application. The den...

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Main Authors: Irawan, Addie, Ai, Chern Lim
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling ump-55812018-04-18T02:24:52Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5581/ Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot Irawan, Addie Ai, Chern Lim T Technology (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper presents the water strider robot design with polystyrene foam-based leg tip approach. With reference to the biological size and flexible maneuverability of water strider this robot suitable to be applied as autonomous instrumentation unit for water quality monitoring application. The density of the main body is designed with less than 1g/cm3, which is less than density of the water. Four motors are placed at the four side of the robot’s body and driven by two half-bridge drivers via a microcontroller. The system is remotely control via computer unit through 3DR Radio module. According to the analysis on various experiments it shows that the size of polystyrene foam and the degree of copper leg play important role by supporting the robot’s body and the floating of robot on the water surface. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5581/1/scan0017.pdf Irawan, Addie and Ai, Chern Lim (2013) Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot. In: Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Control and Computer Engineering (inECCE 2013), 27 -28 August 2013 , MS Garden Hotel, Kuantan. pp. 143-146..
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topic T Technology (General)
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Irawan, Addie
Ai, Chern Lim
Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
description This paper presents the water strider robot design with polystyrene foam-based leg tip approach. With reference to the biological size and flexible maneuverability of water strider this robot suitable to be applied as autonomous instrumentation unit for water quality monitoring application. The density of the main body is designed with less than 1g/cm3, which is less than density of the water. Four motors are placed at the four side of the robot’s body and driven by two half-bridge drivers via a microcontroller. The system is remotely control via computer unit through 3DR Radio module. According to the analysis on various experiments it shows that the size of polystyrene foam and the degree of copper leg play important role by supporting the robot’s body and the floating of robot on the water surface.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Irawan, Addie
Ai, Chern Lim
author_facet Irawan, Addie
Ai, Chern Lim
author_sort Irawan, Addie
title Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
title_short Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
title_full Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
title_fullStr Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
title_full_unstemmed Polystyrene Foam-Based Leg Tip Strider Robot
title_sort polystyrene foam-based leg tip strider robot
publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5581/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5581/1/scan0017.pdf
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