DESIGN FABRICATION AND CONTROL OF A HEXAPOD ROBOT

The technological advancements at the global level have put in a large demand for robots in various industrial applications. The aim of the proposed work is to build a six-legged walking robot that is capable of performing basic mobility tasks, such as walking forward and backward and perform rescue operation in mines. The flow of work is comprises of CAD software, Solid works design of robot, fabrication and control. Later velocity of hexapod is tested and the model with one degree of freedom is validated. The complex motion done by hexapod is enhanced by adding sensing components. This modification would enable it to be implemented in the defense applications, automobile industries and machine tooling. Beyond this type of application, hexapod walking is used in a wide variety of tasks such as forests harvesting, in aid to humans in the transport of cargo, as service robots and entertainment.