2011-04-25 美文赏析:四条腿的大狗机器人
Chinese Quadruped Robot Takes Its First StepsIs this China's answer to BigDog?
Not quite. This is FROG, or Four-legged Robot for Optimal Gait, a quadruped developed by Dr. Wei Wang's team at the Institute of Automation, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.
FROG is a research platform that Dr. Wang and his PhD students use to develop and test quadruped gait control, gait transition, and other locomotion algorithms. Unlike Boston Dynamics' BigDog, which can walk at a fast pace alongside humans, FROG is a slower-moving machine, a prototype for what Dr. Wang hopes will be the endoskeleton of a robotic triceratops.
这个东西名叫 FROG(四条腿机器人),是由我国中国科学院自动化研究所 Wei Wang 教授发明的。目的是展现远古某些四足恐龙的行走方式(例如三角龙),在展览时有更直观的展现。
FROG 使用 Linux系统,采用无线的方式与控制它的电脑交互,不过在使用时他仍旧需要一个电源插头。体内关节安装有加速传感器,能够模拟行走等等。
这玩意看上去有点像 Boston Dynamics 公司出牌的军用 BigDog 大狗机器人。而 Wei Wang 教授也见过 BigDog,对此他表示:BigDog 很牛逼他是用液压方式移动,而我们FROG 是使用电动机的方式。 It's too professional to understand.
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