Design and Control of Multiple Wing-sail Land Yacht Robot

摘要

More and more robots are applied to scientific expedition, but they encounter severe limitations on continuous working as most of them powered by batteries or fuel. Base on this, a multiple wing-sail land-yacht robot is designed and manufactured. Land yacht robot is a new type of mobile robot powered by wind through the use of sail. It includes frame body, wing-sail driven system, turning system, wing-sail rotation system and control system. After assembly, land-yacht robot is test by start wind speed and linear motion experiment. It shows that robot can start up when wind speed in 3m/s. the velocity of robot can reach 3.11m/s when wind speed is 13.6m/s. The results indicate that the multiple wing-sail land-yacht robot could satisfy the requirements of scientific expedition.