Design of a General Resilient Robotic System Based on Axiomatic Design Theory

Resilient robotic systems are a kind of robotic system that is able to recover their original function after partial damage of the system. This is achieved by making changes on the partially damaged robot. The general resilient robot, which makes sense by including active joints, passive joints, passive links, and passive adjustable links, was proposed in order to explore its resilience. The axiomatic design theory (ADT) is applied to develop the resilient robot. First, a general architecture of robots was proposed, which is characterized as under-actuated robot. Second, a docking system was developed, which is the key part of incorporating the proposed architecture in the design of the mechanical system of the resilient robot, and this thus enables the realization of the proposed architecture.