The article presents a fundamentally new design of an anthropomorphic walking device for a mobile robot. The novelty of the proposed design lies in the fact that each part of the leg of the robot is made in the form of four corrugated pneumatic chambers that are mounted on spherical hinges. This design allows the robot to move in an angular coordinate system, which is typical for humans. A mathematical model of an elastic walking device is proposed and analytical dependences are given for calculating the geometric and strength parameters. The results of mathematical modelling and recommendations for the design of anthropomorphic walking mechanisms are given. The engineering formulas and diagrams for calculating power loads described in the article allow you to create various modifications of walking robots that have the property of adapting to an arbitrary surface topology for moving a mobile robot. The stated research results allow us to expand the technological capabilities of mobile robots.

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The article describes a description of a fundamentally new design, mathematical model and experimental research of a flexible arm with an anthropomorphic gripper for an industrial robot. The advantage of the proposed design of the robot arm in comparison with the known traditional technical solutions is achieved as close as possible to the functions of the human arm. This property significantly increases the versatility of the robot arm when performing various technological operations. Another difference from the known models of industrial robots is the presence of an anthropomorphic gripping device in the flexible arm, which allows you to service products with different shapes and arbitrary coordinates in space. In addition, the article for the first time proposes a method for calculating the parameters of a new hand and experimental studies of its functioning, which will allow engineers in the field of robotics to create similar designs. The economic effect of the proposed design is that the implementation of the movements of the proposed robot arm does not require separate electromechanical drives for each joint of the kinematic chain of the manipulator. This effect significantly reduces the cost of a robot arm while expanding its technological capabilities.

The problem of creating mobile robots of arbitrary orientation in the technological space is to ensure reliable retention of robots on the surface of any orientation. Therefore, well-known experimental studies are mainly devoted to the creation of systems for coupling the robot to the surface along which it moves. The purpose of this study is to create a device for compensating the gravitational load of a mobile robot. The article contains the results of experimental testing of a fundamentally new approach to counteract the gravitational load of a mobile robot, namely, the expediency of equipping the robot with a source of reactive thrust of a non-chemical origin. A pneumatic generator of aerodynamic lift is proposed as such a source. Such a force partially compensates or completely overcomes the gravitational load, while not allowing the transformation of a mobile robot into an aircraft. The specified condition is necessary to perform contact power technological operations in the maintenance of various industrial facilities. In other words, the thrust force should not exceed the adhesion forces of the mobile robot to the displacement surface. As a research method, a full factorial experiment of the operation of a jet thrust generator was used, which is a new way to increase the reliability of holding the robot on an arbitrary surface. The article describes the methodology and description of the full factorial experiment with varying independent factors at two extreme levels. As a result, an experimental solution to the problem of finding the quasi-optimal values of the aerodynamic lifting force depending on the parameters of the jet thrust generator is obtained. As a result, the combination of a new robot design with the results of experimental studies confirms the feasibility of using a pneumatic jet thrust generator as a means of increasing the reliability of holding mobile robots on an arbitrary orientation surface in the technological space.