DeltaZ: An Accessible Compliant Delta Robot Manipulator for Research and Education
Abstract
This paper presents the DeltaZ robot, a centimeter-scale, low-cost, delta-style robot that allows for a broad range of capabilities and robust functionalities. The DeltaZ robot is 3D-printed from soft and rigid materials with a design that is easy to assemble and maintain, and lowers the barriers to utilize. Functionality of the robot stems from its three translational degrees of freedom and a closed form kinematic solution which makes manipulation problems more intuitive compared to many other manipulators. Moreover, the low cost of the robot presents an opportunity to democratize manipulators for research and education settings. We describe how the robot can be used as a reinforcement learning benchmark. Open-source 3D-printable designs and code for building and using the robot are available to the public.
BibTeX
@conference{Patil-2022-133434,author = {Sarvesh Patil and Samuel C. Alvares and Pragna Mannam and Oliver Kroemer,and F. Zeynep Temel},
title = {DeltaZ: An Accessible Compliant Delta Robot Manipulator for Research and Education},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2022},
month = {October},
publisher = {IEEE RAS},
keywords = {Education Robotics, Parallel Robots, Compliant Joints and Mechanisms, Additive Manufacturing, Soft Robot Applications, Flexible Robotics, Kinematics},
}