| Boston Dynamics BigDog Robot - the Army mule |
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The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston
Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped
robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough
terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is
powered by a gasoline engine that drives a
hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are
articulated like an animal's, and have
compliant elements that absorb shock and
recycle energy from one step to the next.
BigDog is the size of a large dog or small
mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall
and 75 kg weight.
Tags : Robot BigDog Boston Dynamics |
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Durée : 179 s |
| Boston Dynamics BigDog |
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The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston
Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped
robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough
terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is
powered by a gasoline engine that drives a
hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are
articulated like an animal's, and have
compliant elements that absorb shock and
recycle energy from one step to the next.
BigDog is the size of a large dog or small
mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall
and 75 kg weight.
BigDog has an on-board computer that controls
locomotion, servos the legs and handles a
wide variety of sensors. BigDog's control
system manages the dynamics of its behavior
to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and
regulate energetics as conditions vary.
Sensors for locomotion include joint
position, joint force, ground contact, ground
load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision
system. Other sensors focus on the internal
state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic
pressure, oil temperature, engine
temperature, rpm, battery charge and others.
So far, BigDog has trotted at 3.3 mph,
climbed a 35 degree slope and carried a 120
lb load.
BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics
with help from Foster Miller, the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard
University Concord Field Station.Development
is funded by the DARPA Defense Sciences
Office.
Tags : boston dynamics bigdog robot |
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Durée : 173 s |
| Force Dynamics 301 LFS |
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The first video of the 301! This video is a
roughly two minute clip of the MRT5 at Fern
Bay Club in Live For Speed S1. To download
the video (rather than stream it) right click
and select 'save as'.
Video notes:
1. You may notice that we're using the
Driving Force Pro pedals in this video rather
than our own - this isn't because we won't
have them, it's because the Force pedals are
off being worked on at the moment! We did
tweak on the DFPro pedals a little bit
though...
2. This video shows the finesse and response
speed of the 301 to maximum effect. Small,
light, agile cars like the MRT5 (400lbs,
~70hp) are among the most difficult to
simulate accurately with a motion system.
Keep an eye on the transition times between
left and right hand cornering in the chicane.
Tags : force dynamics simulator |
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Affichage : 122687
Durée : 108 s |
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