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Re: Jumping 'bots?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:55:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jim Thomas) writes:
> I remember that jumping robot but I think that it was more than 10 years
> ago... I'm pretty sure I was in High School at the time. If I had to guess
> I would say 1984-1985 timeframe (or even older?). Somewhat related I
> remember seing a TV program in the 80's that showed a "dog" robot that could
> walk/run on four legs. The lower part of the legs were hydrolic pistons.
> To move a leg it would retract the piston and then swing it into position.
> It kindof bounced along as it ran (like Pepe LePeu). It was really cool.
> The computer was not on board, it had an umbilical cord.
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> JT
The Scientific American Unipod also had an off-board pewter.
How about the related, simpler, problem of a balancing robot? It has one leg
which is not stable by itself (rounded base, say). It has to balance on its
leg, and recover from small peturbations. The larger the set of peturbations
it can handle the better, but one could start small. Can that be done with
Midstorms?
If that works then you make it jump and land. I know this isn't particularly
frog-like, but it seems interesting.
-g
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