Measurement of vibrations in two tower-typed assistant personal robot implementations with and without a passive suspension system

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Moreno Blanc, Javier
Clotet Bellmunt, Eduard
Tresánchez Ribes, Marcel
Martínez Lacasa, Daniel
Casanovas Salas, Jordi
Palacín Roca, Jordi
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Moreno Blanc, Javier; Clotet Bellmunt, Eduard; Tresánchez Ribes, Marcel; Martínez Lacasa, Daniel; Casanovas Salas, Jordi; Palacín Roca, Jordi; . (2017) . Measurement of vibrations in two tower-typed assistant personal robot implementations with and without a passive suspension system. Sensors, 2017, vol. 17, num. 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17051122.
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This paper presents the vibration pattern measurement of two tower-typed holonomic mobile robot prototypes: one based on a rigid mechanical structure, and the other including a passive suspension system. Specific to the tower-typed mobile robots is that the vibrations that originate in the lower part of the structure are transmitted and amplified to the higher areas of the tower, causing an unpleasant visual effect and mechanical stress. This paper assesses the use of a suspension system aimed at minimizing the generation and propagation of vibrations in the upper part of the tower-typed holonomic robots. The two robots analyzed were equipped with onboard accelerometers to register the acceleration over the X, Y, and Z axes in different locations and at different velocities. In all the experiments, the amplitude of the vibrations showed a typical Gaussian pattern which has been modeled with the value of the standard deviation. The results have shown that the measured vibrations in the head of the mobile robots, including a passive suspension system, were reduced by a factor of 16.
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https://doi.org/10.3390/s17051122
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