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General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: fridgid on August 02, 2012, 06:47:10 AM

Title: Robot with Tail always lands on its wheels
Post by: fridgid on August 02, 2012, 06:47:10 AM

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/robot-lands-like-cat/ (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/robot-lands-like-cat/)

Thought this was pretty awesome

Title: Re: Robot with Tail always lands on its wheels
Post by: Gertlex on August 02, 2012, 05:08:26 PM

I went looking for papers by that research group. Particularly interesting was one from 2004 where they talk about how they did optimization of the movement of the rotating six legged platform. http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Main/AutomatedGaitAdaptationForLeggedRobots (http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Main/AutomatedGaitAdaptationForLeggedRobots)