Detection of slippery terrain with a heterogeneous team of legged robots, UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich

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Autonomous Systems Lab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?2681), Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Biomimetic Millisystems Lab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?2463), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

Team:

StarlETH (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?12683), quadruped robot

Duncan W. Haldane, Peter Fankhauser, Roland Siegwart, Ronald S. Fearing

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Article "Big and Little Legged Robots Team Up to Conquer Terrain (https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/big-and-little-legged-robots-team-up-to-conquer-terrain)"

by Evan Ackerman
Junу 11, 2014

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https://youtu.be/9bxVaafV7q4

Big and Little Robots Team Up to Conquer Terrain

Published on Jun 11, 2014


"Detection of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots," by Duncan W. Haldane, Peter Fankhauser, Roland Siegwart, and Ronald S. Fearing, from UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich, was presented at ICRA 2014 in Hong Kong.

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https://youtu.be/w_K62RxZ-qQ

Little Robot Gets Stepped On by Big Robot

Published on Jun 11, 2014

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https://youtu.be/hQVD36pz9no

Cooperative detection of slippery terrain

Published on Jun 13, 2014


StarlETH and VelociRoACH team up to detect slippery terrain. VelociRoACH is used as a semi-disposable probe to run in advance of StarlETH to detect potential hazards.