Bioloid Climbing Robot
By Chief Robot. Filed in Humanoid, Research, Robot News |Tags: bioloid, climbing, robot, university of dortmund
This is a project from the University of Dortmund and Marko Wickwrath.
The Bioloid robot shown here can actually climb the wall all on its own. It actually figures out where to go on the fly instead of following a pre-programmed route.
The bioloid robots climbs a freely configurable wall, this is NOT a predefinded motion sequence. It is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.
The final scenario will be a bioloid looking at the wall using an onboard vision system, detecting marked grips, calculating the best way up, walking to the start position and climbing up the wall, totally autonomously
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