Home

News

Science

The Tree Climbing Robots of RiSE

Friday, 25 July 2008

Syndication

The Tree Climbing Robots of RiSE

Written by J Wolfgang Goerlich

Friday, 10 March 2006

There is a video on New Scientist that shows a robot climbing a tree and other vertical surfaces. This is from the RiSE initiative, a descendent of the BR MURI project.

BR MURI, Biomimetic Robots Multi-University Research Initiative, focused on building legged robots that ran. The goal of RiSE, Robots in Scansorial Environments, is building legged robots that climb. Judging by the video and the Wiki, RiSE is off to a good start.

The RiSE platform runs QNX 6.1.0 on a Geode 266MHz processor. The body (v1.0) contains 12 Maxon RE motors and a 4-bar linkage connected through a differential (v1.2 uses a belt drive system) that reveals 2 DOF (wing and crank angle) per leg. The leg position is controlled by RMCs (RiSE motor controller) that use PD control. Currently the body uses LSANs (leg sensing and actuation node) to collect sensor info (accelerometer, potentiometer on 4-bar joint) for feedback.

Stay tuned to GoRobotics for a peek back at the robots of BR MURI.

Tags See All Tags Add New Tag...

Please Enter New Tags Separated By Comma's
Or Close

Comments

Write Comment
Please keep the topic of messages relevant to the subject of the article.
Personal verbal attacks will be deleted.
Please don't use comments to plug your web site. Such material will be removed.
Name:
E-mail (invisible to spambots)
Homepage
Title:
BBCode:
Comment:

Code:* Code

< Prev		Next >

Support GR.N

Ball Bearing

Popular