Automatic Robot Desiging Using Inner Three-Dimensional Structure and Optimization

Robots have been used widely in society recently. Many robots are designed for expanding demands. Such demands are various and each of them contains subtle differences. However, designing robots takes a long time and high costs in general. Therefore, a rapid and easy robot design method is needed. Robot designing method that design robot with a three-dimensional diamond crystal-shaped structure suitable for the 3D printer is proposed previously and it makes robot designing easier because it simplifies the robot designing problem as an optimization problem of defining three-dimensional positions and attitudes of components. Thus, an automatic robot designing system by using this method is proposed in this paper. Components are deployed inside the robot appearance model based on the optimization method in the proposed automatic robot designing system. The components are defined and deployed one by one to suppress an increase of dimension of the optimization problem. It is achieved by considering characteristics of robot designing. The result of component deployment and several cases indicating adaptive optimization ability is shown.