Design and fabrication of articulated shrimp rover

Abstract

Robotic rovers play a very important role in unstructured environmental exploration, and around 300 concepts of different types of these rovers have been generated over the past two decades. All rovers share the engineering problem of unpredictable and difficult terrain, along with the adequate design specifications to tackle these problems. This thesis aims to design the working of a shrimp rover for unstructured environments. Shrimp rover is capable of overcoming comparatively large obstacles. It is designed to transport anywhere most easily and efficiently with low effort. This project includes designing, fabricating, and testing of a shrimp rover. Literature surveys lead us to study different types of mobile robotics. Model is designed in CAD and FEM analysis on ANSYS. The control of this rover is remotely established with help of an Arduino. Finally, the fabrication of the prototype is done and the results are verified