Hey, ... Maybe a gait like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQw9V4Upj4 Ed Okerson...
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dpa_io
Jan 1, 2011 5:23 pm
Exactly!...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 1, 2011 5:40 pm
dpa_io said: Saturday, January 01, 2011 1:28 AM ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86a_8M5SBw...
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Pete Miles
ajklz5
Jan 1, 2011 7:15 pm
I wish I could find the videos, but several years ago I saw this great video of a humanoid robot walk across a teeter totter, then do a hand stand on it. Then...
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Pete Miles
ajklz5
Jan 1, 2011 7:15 pm
Very Impressive ... From: "Larry Geib" <LJGeib@...> To: <SeattleRobotics@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 3:07 PM Subject: Re:...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 1, 2011 7:16 pm
Peter Balch said: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:24 PM ... Planned for FlexiForce on each leg tip, and a single 6-axis IMU on body. We'll have voltage and...
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Pete Miles
ajklz5
Jan 1, 2011 7:24 pm
The original intent for the Walking Robot Race for the Robothon was for Humanoid robots. We opened it up to all walkers so that they would have a contest to ...
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Pete Miles
ajklz5
Jan 1, 2011 7:26 pm
I don't know. I can guess by scalling by the servo size. I have seen these robots from 6 inches to about 2 feet tall. There is a wide range of them. Most of...
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Dennis Clark
dennis_lm_clark
Jan 1, 2011 7:58 pm
That is cool. A four-legged roller skater 'bot. Most cool. Way faster on flat/smooth, walk on the rough. DLC ... -- Dennis Clark TTT Enterprises...
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dan michaels
oric_dan
Jan 1, 2011 8:41 pm
... I don't think anyone is selling the "animals" short. But goats are so far ahead of anything robotic, it's barely worth making a comparison. Also, very few...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 1, 2011 8:43 pm
Peter Balch said: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:20 PM ... Perhaps you are stuck in using a Newtonian sense of gravity. Pardon me while I get a bit pedantic...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 1, 2011 9:06 pm
Peter Balch said: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:53 PM ... The power loss is not something I'd worry about. You can always add a cell to the battery pack to...
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dan michaels
oric_dan
Jan 1, 2011 9:06 pm
... Both the later Titan robots and PAW have wheels on their legs. http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/robot/walking\ /rollerwalker/rollerwalker_e.html ...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 2, 2011 12:12 am
From: Randy M. Dumse ... I too worried about it and tested it extensively. It didn't affect the 3 brands of servos I tried it with. It would probably be better...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 2, 2011 12:40 am
From: Randy M. Dumse ... FlexiForce is uni-directional and analog, right? I guess with that you could maybe check that the CoG is well inside the triangle...
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dan michaels
oric_dan
Jan 2, 2011 1:01 am
... BTW, I tracked down the original page your linked-picture came from. If you scan down the page, I think you'll see that the goats greatly prefer to keep...
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dpa_io
Jan 2, 2011 2:15 am
nifty!...
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Wim Lewis
wimlwiml
Jan 2, 2011 2:41 am
... Do you know about the Gumstix and similar small ARM boards? These run Linux: http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/index.php http://www.tincantools.com/ ...
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Larry Geib
lorenzojose2000
Jan 2, 2011 3:02 am
it just climbed the vertical rock below it. Then when it was done, it climbed back down....
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Larry Geib
lorenzojose2000
Jan 2, 2011 3:35 am
Rock climbing is all about exceptions, but you build a library of like moves for like situations. You learn generalized techniques for bridging, stemming,...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 2, 2011 5:12 am
Peter Balch said: Saturday, January 01, 2011 6:40 PM ... FlexiForce is analong. I doubt it is uni-directional. But on the bottom of the foot, they should be...
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Larry Geib
lorenzojose2000
Jan 2, 2011 5:47 am
Here's a video of a baby goat using all kinds of techniques, with legs at all levels. I think the most instructive part is the recovery from sliding that is...
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McFly
mr_gota_fly
Jan 2, 2011 10:30 am
My Mule needs better vision then I can get from standard web cams, any ideas? Video of Mule's first snow <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHXdzRKQjis> ...
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Wim Lewis
wimlwiml
Jan 2, 2011 11:14 am
Fast as in frame rate or fast as in low-light sensitive?...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 2, 2011 12:18 pm
From: Randy M. Dumse ... So you're using it as a boolean signal, You're not using it to work out whether the weight is safely inside the foot polygon and to do...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 2, 2011 12:45 pm
From: dan michaels ... Absolutely. The DoD aren't asking for goats, they're asking for mules. Where is it that a mule can go that a 4WD quadbike can't? ... It...
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Peter Balch
peterbalch@...
Jan 2, 2011 12:49 pm
From: Mark Kenworthy ... Know of any web pages? Preferably in English! Peter...
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robotMaker
robotmeiker
Jan 2, 2011 5:59 pm
Pete: You probably know this already, but I will share anyway. I too controlled my bot wirelessly at the start, but later added its own onboard computer. I got...
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robotMaker
robotmeiker
Jan 2, 2011 6:05 pm
I believe that one that I got was this one: http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206 Cesar ... From: Pete Miles...
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Randy M. Dumse
rmdumse
Jan 2, 2011 8:30 pm
Peter Balch said: Sunday, January 02, 2011 6:45 AM ... Sorry if this is a repeat, but a true story. My wife's Granddad, now passed, used to tell about a guy up...
