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Thread: RHex, six-legged robot, devours rough terrain, Boston Dynamics, Inc., Kod*lab, USA

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    RHex, six-legged robot, devours rough terrain, Boston Dynamics, Inc., Kod*lab, USA

    Developer -Boston Dynamics, Inc.

    Home page - bostondynamics.com/rhex

    Kod*lab

    Rhex on Wikipedia

    Summary of the RHex robot platform

    The first prototype was built by Uluc Saranli in 1999

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    RHEX - KodLab (long)

    Uploaded on Nov 3, 2009



    RHex Rough-Terrain Robot

    Published on Mar 27, 2012

    RHex is a 30-lb robot designed for mobility on rough terrain. It is operated remotely via an RF link that includes a high-resolution video uplink. RHex can operate right-side-up or up-side down, as shown in the video, and goes for up to four hours on one charge of its batteries. RHex has been around for several years, but we redesigned this version for ruggedness, long battery life, maintainability, and improved mobility. This version of RHex was funded by the US Army's Rapid Equipping Force.

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    Leaping with RHex

    Published on May 8, 2013

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    RHex the Parkour Robot

    Published on Jul 23, 2013

    RHex is an all-terrain walking robot that could one day climb over rubble in a rescue mission or cross the desert with environmental sensors strapped to its back.

    Pronounced "Rex," like the over-excited puppy it resembles when it is bounding over the ground, RHex is short for "robot hexapod," a name that stems from its six springy legs.

    Legs have an advantage over wheels when it comes to rough terrain, but the articulated legs often found on walking robots require complex, specialized instructions for each moving part. To get the most mobility out of RHex's simple, one-jointed legs, Penn researchers are essentially teaching the robot Parkour. Taking inspiration from human free-runners, the team is showing the robot how to manipulate its body in creative ways to get around all sorts of obstacles.

    The RHex platform was first developed through a multi-university collaboration more than a decade ago. Graduate student Aaron Johnson and professor Daniel Koditschek, both of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, are working on a version of RHex known as XRL, or X-RHex Lite. This lighter and more agile version of the robot, developed in Koditschek's Kod*Lab, a division of Engineering's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, is ideal for testing new ways for it to run, jump, and climb.

    By activating its legs in different sequences, XRL can execute double jumps, flips, and, through a combination of moves, even pull-ups. For the tallest obstacles, the robot can launch itself vertically, hook its front legs on the edge of the object it's trying to surmount, then drag its body up and over. The researchers fully demonstrated this particular maneuver under more controlled conditions in the lab.

    The paper where Johnson and Koditschek outlined these capabilities—"Toward a Vocabulary of Legged Leaping"—was selected as a finalist for best student paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May.

    "What we want is a robot that can go anywhere, even over terrain that might be broken and uneven," Johnson says. "These latest jumps greatly expand the range of what this machine is capable of, as it can now jump onto or across obstacles that are bigger than it is."


    RHex - The Extended Cut

    Published on Jul 25, 2013

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    RHex Robot With Ninja Legs Walking, Standing

    Published on Dec 9, 2013

    "Ninja Legs: Amphibious One Degree of Freedom Robotic Legs," by Bir Bikram Dey, Sandeep Manjanna, and Gregory Dudek from the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University, was presented last month at IROS 2013 in Tokyo, Japan."]Published on Dec 9, 2013
    "Ninja Legs: Amphibious One Degree of Freedom Robotic Legs," by Bir Bikram Dey, Sandeep Manjanna, and Gregory Dudek from the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University, was presented last month at IROS 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.

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    Rhex Amphibious Robot Beach Test

    Published on Dec 9, 2013

    "Ninja Legs: Amphibious One Degree of Freedom Robotic Legs," by Bir Bikram Dey, Sandeep Manjanna, and Gregory Dudek from the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University, was presented last month at IROS 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.

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    Uploaded on Nov 5, 2010

    RHex is a power - and computation - autonomous hexapod robot with compliant legs and only one actuator per leg

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    The X-RHex Hexapedal Robot

    Uploaded on Jan 20, 2011

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    D-RHex 2.0: Jornada and White Sands Mobility Failure Cases

    Published on Nov 20, 2014

    In fall 2014 we took two new X-RHex generation robots outfitted for desert research to the Jornada desert and White Sands national monument. In this video, we demonstrate the two mobility failure cases that we found at White Sands: motor stalling and slippage.

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