[FRIAM] Dancing Robots

[Frank Wimberly]

The horse thing has been done.  Start in about the middle of this video:

https://youtu.be/JGNopwFcz3A

Frank

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 12:44 PM Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> While I was in grad school around 1966, we had a big ARPA (?) grant to
> build a robotic horse. It was designed to be able to move with any of the
> possible gaits. The project was not successful because the horse was very
> heavy and the available motors at the time could not move it fast enough to
> get dynamic stability. So in the end all it could do was walk slowly with
> only one leg off the ground at a time. Sometime it’s not the computer side
> that prevents advances in robotics.
>
> Ed
> _______________________
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> Ed Angel
>
> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory
> (ARTS Lab)
> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
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> On Apr 3, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For those who haven't seen the video that was mentioned in yesterday's
> meeting:
>
> https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw
>
> Marc has accomplished a lot since this:
>
>
>    - Raibert, M. H., Wimberly, F. C. 1984. Tabular control of balance in
>    a dynamic legged system. *IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics*
>     14:334--339.
>
>
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
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