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Robot cockroach runs quickly and easily overcomes obstacles
A cockroach, a cockroach, tarakashechka,
Little girl trying Zhidkonogaya-bukashechka.
Roots Chukovsky, "Cockroach» i>
Engineers from the University of California, изготовили miniature robot , which can deftly overcome obstacles, without using any sensors for environmental analysis. Taking a cue from the cockroach, researchers have provided the robot oval "shell", which allows him to get out of difficult situations. Jobs posted in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics .
Smart mobile robot, overcome obstacles, usually equipped with various sensors, cameras, range finders, and intelligent construction of the painting of the surrounding space. Sophisticated algorithms determine the best ways that you can get through the rough terrain. But, as the authors explain the work with a large number of obstacles whose size is comparable or slightly less than the size of the robot, this approach is beginning to face serious difficulties.
At first, their robot was rectangular. Having caused the corners, it becomes entangled in obstacles. And then they decided to use the pantry Mother Nature, that is, the rich experience of the evolutionary nature and give your robot faired. Such an approach, they assembled at the Tropical cockroaches. Those living on the ground in dense vegetation, and thanks to its oval-shaped shells, quite cleverly pushed through obstacles.
Faced with obstacles, tarakashki just tilted sideways body, and thus squeeze through the blades of grass or other objects. A lack of corners does not allow them to cling to anything.
So researchers armor and equipped with his six-legged robot. Without any additional sensors and changes in the algorithm, it is quite briskly to wade through foreign objects - not to mention how fast it does it, in contrast to the usual slow robots, able to move around on the surface.
I was immediately reminded of a simple robot in his brilliant creation of robotics engineers from Boston Dynamics - also six-legged robot RHex . Using as a driving force ordinary motors that rotate just his elastic flexible "feet", he does not just marching briskly on a flat surface, but also very confident to overcome various terrain, can jump and even swim.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/252434/
Little girl trying Zhidkonogaya-bukashechka.
Roots Chukovsky, "Cockroach» i>
Engineers from the University of California, изготовили miniature robot , which can deftly overcome obstacles, without using any sensors for environmental analysis. Taking a cue from the cockroach, researchers have provided the robot oval "shell", which allows him to get out of difficult situations. Jobs posted in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics .
Smart mobile robot, overcome obstacles, usually equipped with various sensors, cameras, range finders, and intelligent construction of the painting of the surrounding space. Sophisticated algorithms determine the best ways that you can get through the rough terrain. But, as the authors explain the work with a large number of obstacles whose size is comparable or slightly less than the size of the robot, this approach is beginning to face serious difficulties.
At first, their robot was rectangular. Having caused the corners, it becomes entangled in obstacles. And then they decided to use the pantry Mother Nature, that is, the rich experience of the evolutionary nature and give your robot faired. Such an approach, they assembled at the Tropical cockroaches. Those living on the ground in dense vegetation, and thanks to its oval-shaped shells, quite cleverly pushed through obstacles.
Faced with obstacles, tarakashki just tilted sideways body, and thus squeeze through the blades of grass or other objects. A lack of corners does not allow them to cling to anything.
So researchers armor and equipped with his six-legged robot. Without any additional sensors and changes in the algorithm, it is quite briskly to wade through foreign objects - not to mention how fast it does it, in contrast to the usual slow robots, able to move around on the surface.
I was immediately reminded of a simple robot in his brilliant creation of robotics engineers from Boston Dynamics - also six-legged robot RHex . Using as a driving force ordinary motors that rotate just his elastic flexible "feet", he does not just marching briskly on a flat surface, but also very confident to overcome various terrain, can jump and even swim.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/252434/
