Miscellaneous

Master students Project (combination between hexabod & boebot robot) at [E-Just] Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Department

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Rodney Brooks' Genghis robot (from https://groups.csail.mit.edu/lbr/genghis)

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A surprisingly realistic hexapod robot demonstrated at the Robot Japan 7 event held in Tokyo, Japan.

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This research verifies the localization system for a robot walking on rough terrain. The Parallel Tracking and Mapping (PTAM) algorithm and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are used to determine the 6-DOF pose. The system operates on-line on the real robot. The inclination of the robot's platform is determined by using IMU. The localization system is used together with the RRT-based motion planner which allows to walk autonomously on rough, previously unknown terrain. Efficiency and precision of the proposed solution are demonstrated by experiments.

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Just a little test of how the CH3R can walk on various floors.

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This is the Hexapod robot that I completed recently, it is composed of 12 servos running off of a EZ-B, I am currently using the script for EZ-Robot's Six Robot, although I am also working on my own.

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Showing translational motion, rotational motion, tripod gait and lastly ripple gait.

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Showing translational motion, rotational motion, tripod gait and lastly ripple gait.

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The WALKING HEAD is a 2 m diameter 6-legged autonomous walking robot. Vertically mounted on its chassis is an LCD screen imaging a computer generated human-like head. The LCD screen can rotate from side to side. The robot has a scanning ultra-sound sensor that detects the presence of a person in front of it. It sits still until someone comes into the gallery space- then it stands, selects from a set of movements from its library of pre-programmed motions and performs the choreography. It then stops and waits until it detects someone else. The robot performs on a 4 m diameter platform and its tilt sensor system detects when it is close to the edge and backs off, walking in another direction. The Walking Head robot will become an actual-virtual system in that its mechanical leg motions will actuate its facial behaviours of nods, turns, tilts blinks and its vocalizations. Other possibilities include the robot being driven by its web-based 3D model with a menu of motion icons that can be pasted together and played. The robot is pneumatically actuated. The WALKING HEAD is a work in progress.

Engineering and robot programming by STEFAN DOEPNER, LARS VAUPEL, GWEN TAUBE and JAN CUMMEROW of f18, Hamburg
The walking head implemented voice enabled softbot agent technology developed by STEVE MIDDLETON at the Animation & Interactive Media Centre in Melbourne, 2001-2006
Compressor and gallery installation by FLOPPY SPONGE AUTOMATION

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3 servo hexapod named Penny. Uses a Cheapduino board from DFRobot and a pair of IR sensors.

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Adaptive Analytically-founded Yaw Control Algorithm for Omnidirectional Walking of Hexapod Robot on Uneven Terrain (supplement to the article submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics)

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Introducing Antsy! RobotGeeks new 3 servo hexapod. Antsy is Arduino controlled that comes with sensors with the option of 3D shelling.

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Researchers at EPFL and UNIL have discovered a faster and more efficient gait, never observed in nature, for six-legged robots walking on flat ground. Bio-inspired gaits – less efficient for robots – are used by real insects since they have adhesive pads to walk in three dimensions. The results provide novel approaches for roboticists and new information to biologists.

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A six-legs robot with ghost in the shell.

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In an emergency, first responders often have to make a very tough call: is it too dangerous to send someone in? In the future, this decision will hopefully be much easier with the help of some six legged robots: hexapods. Creating robots that can go into an unpredictable, unstable environment and help people escape it would be a literal life-saver.

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AMBLER (acronym for Autonomous MoBiLe Exploration Robot), developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This behemoth stands about 5m (16.4ft) tall, is up to 7m (23.0ft) wide, and weights 2500 kg (5512 lb). It moves at a blistering 35 cm (13.8 in) per minute. Just sitting still, it consumes 1400 W of power. Ask it to walk and it sucks up just about 4000 W.

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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology students Amir Belder and Nadav Siegelman from the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering build this Hexapod in the Control Robotics and Machine Learning Lab. The students were supervised by Koby Kohai.

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