Overall Design of an Articulated Stop-Motion Shooting Robot

Abstract

For the poor degree of stability and limitation of shooting dexterity of existing stop-motion shooting machine, the overall structure of a new stop-motion shooting robot is developed. Based on the analysis on the shooting requirement, the lens motion space and motion way of the robot are set up, and the structure sketch is proposed. The distance between the adjacent joints is obtained according to the robot kinematics analysis by means of D-H method, and overall design of the robot is established. A new wire-drive device is proposed to improve flexibility of the motion part, and is applied to drive holder. Comparing with existing stop-motion shooting machine, the robot has high stability and good flexibility. The overall design may also play a fundamental part in further detail design of the articulated stop-motion shooting robot.