*Please see below for a summary of the results of the research assistance project:

Overview of JKA Public Interest Incorporated Foundation 2021 research grant “Research on interconnected structurally variable cable robot system using reticular cableway self-propelled machine and throwing/thrown machine”

Overview of JKA Public Interest Incorporated Foundation 2019 research grant “Practical technology development of self-propelled structurally variable parallel robots with mesh cableways”

Overview of JKA Public Interest Incorporated Foundation 2017 research grant “Research and development of mesh cableway self-propelled mechanism and structurally variable parallel wire mechanism”

2019-2020

2017-2018​

TCC78S: Turn at a cable node in the horizontal plane

TCC78D: Turn at a cable node in the horizontal plane

TCC78S: Ascending 52 deg cableway

TCC78D: Ascending and descending 72 deg cableway

TCC78S: Turn at a cable node and climb up another inclined cable

TCC78D: Turn at a cable node and climb up another inclined cable

TCC78S: Traversing spatially structured cableway

TCC78: Reconfiguration of a cable driven parallel robot by multiple cable traversing robots

Cableway layout generation based on the Voronoi diagram and shortest path search

Acknowledgment

This research is supported by auto racing (JKA Public Interest Incorporated Foundation 2017 research grant “Research and development of innovative field robots using reticular cableway self-propelled mechanism and structurally variable parallel wire mechanism”) and bicycle racing (JKA 2017 Public Interest Incorporated Foundation) This work was carried out with the support of a research grant entitled “Practical technology development of self-propelled structurally variable parallel robots using reticular cableways.”