Walking Robots

[Andrew Blair]

Does anyone know of a walking robot done in FIRST? Just browsing through Chief Delphi I saw mention of one, but I forget now. Seems like an interesting idea.

[Richard Wallace]

Does anyone know of a walking robot done in FIRST? Just browsing through Chief Delphi I saw mention of one, but I forget now. Seems like an interesting idea.
Check out team 276. I recall they have patented a walking drivetrain, used on their robots for several years now. This year's version is a little slow, but effective and powerful.

[Lil' Lavery]

I havnt seen one, but apparently 276 did one. Ive been toying with the idea for about a year now, but I dont think itll happen at 116 during my term on the team at least.

[Cory]

Beatty, 2002.

More of a shuffle, than a walk, but it was the closest to walking at the time.

[ConKbot of Doom]

In the beginning of the season I was considering making a shuffle bot. I had seen a robot on battlebots, back when it was on the air that had some sheets of plastic stacked up sideways, with a cam in the middle which spun quickly and made the feet go. It was darn quick and they got a weight bonus for being a walking bot.

[xzvrw2]

Beatty, 2002.

More of a shuffle, than a walk, but it was the closest to walking at the time.

yes but that robot was a "walking" beast (no pun intended) I consider it walking so therefore it is a walking robot. ;)

[Joe Johnson]

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Can you envision the day when we have FIRST size robots that look like these?

Go here (http://www.zmp.co.jp/e_html/products_education.html#enuvo) to see some very cool videos of the first (naked?) robot walking, etc.

Joe J.

[David Guzman]

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Can you envision the day when we have FIRST size robots that look like these?

Go here (http://www.zmp.co.jp/e_html/products_education.html#enuvo) to see some very cool videos of the first (naked?) robot walking, etc.

Joe J.


Wow that is amazing, actually I do belief that at some point FIRST could have that type of bots. I just hope im still here to se them. It shouln't be far at this rate of progress.

Dave

[Bill Moore]

Does anyone know of a walking robot done in FIRST? Just browsing through Chief Delphi I saw mention of one, but I forget now. Seems like an interesting idea.

In 2001, Team 25 (2000 National Champions) made Robo-Kong (I believe that was the name). It didn't really walk, but it would move to the bar in the center of the field and then do a "handstand" to carry itself across the bar. A very neat exercise in robot locomotion.

Their 2000 Champion robot had a very unique strategy also. Catch them in Atlanta and I'm sure they can provide more details on both.

By the way, they are in Gali-LEO!!!

[TimCraig]

Not from FIRST but if you're interested in current activity on walking robots, here's a couple of interesting sites.

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2005/0217robot.shtml

http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/locomotion_and_robotics/overview.htm

[Ronald_raygun]

In the beginning of the season I was considering making a shuffle bot. I had seen a robot on battlebots, back when it was on the air that had some sheets of plastic stacked up sideways, with a cam in the middle which spun quickly and made the feet go. It was darn quick and they got a weight bonus for being a walking bot.

That robot was Son of Whyachi...The design is extremely effective. I beleive that they had a 15ft/sec speed before they lost control.

About these shuffling robots, here is a website with more detail about them.


Team Mad Cow's Kung Fu Cow (http://www.teammadcow.com/kfc.htm)

[lynca]

Walking seems really inefficient with many of the past game designs. However using real human hands could be an ideal universal manipulator for teleoperation.

Imagine putting on a glove that moves a robotic hand just as your hand moves. Operator Training and mistake would be minimal. Control System theory potentially might be quite simple as a one to one mapping. Robonaut is a great example of mapping remote hand control.

[Mike]

Check out http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=27310

It's a robot kit to make a bipedal robot similar to the one MIT made.

[Ronald_raygun]

The hand controller has already been developed. I've seen them at the ROBOOlympics out in sanfran.

Here are a list of videos (http://www.teamkiss.com/roboone/robo1videos.html) from the andriod wrestling competition. One of the videos show the control system, I forgot which one.

[[527]phil]

I'm currently working on my own robo one wrestling robot. Does anyone know of any competition near NY?