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- The review examines various driving mechanisms and sensors for spherical robots, highlighting their holonomic nature and protective shells that safeguard internal components.
- It identifies the limitations of typical sensors in these robots while proposing the addition of advanced sensors like cameras and LiDARs to enhance environmental sensing abilities.
- The paper suggests that by integrating these enhanced sensors, spherical robots can be effectively designed for specialized underground exploration tasks, such as responding to accidents in mines or road tunnels.
Article Abstract
The review discusses the possibilities of different driving mechanisms and sensors of spherical robots, and a special kind of mobile robots is introduced and discussed. The sensors discussed can expand robots' sensing capabilities which are typically very limited. Most spherical robots have holonomic characteristics and protect the inner environment using a shell. Today, there are a diversity of driving mechanisms. Therefore, this article provides a review of all of them and identifies their basic properties. Accordingly, many spherical robots have only inner sensors for moving, balancing, driving, etc. However, a few of them are also equipped with sensors that can measure environmental properties. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the possibility of using such sensors as cameras, LiDARs, thermocouples, and gas sensors, which can be used for special purposes underground, for example, in mines, underground tunnels, or road tunnels. After combining all components are combined, it is possible to design a special type of spherical robot designed for underground exploration, such as accidents in mines or road tunnels.
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