The Best Of The Bots At IRCA 2011
The fourth edition of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA) was in Shanghai, China between 9 – 13 may 2011. The experts, engineers and researchers all over the globe flew to Shanghai for the IRCA 2011. The theme for the conference this year was “Better Robots, Better Lifeâ€. This provided the companies and the designers with the much needed encouragement to build robots that would surely help in building a better human society. 2000 leading robot making companies were provided with a platform to discuss on the research tips and tricks and to show off their latest robot designs.
Some of the interesting designs are as discussed below:
P2R:
P2R is a handy supermarket robot design which scans and packs your goods all by itself. The Bot designed at the Stanford University can easily pick up an object, can rotate it, find the barcode at the back and then finally place it in the bag. It follows the following procedure to do the above tasks. It quickly takes a 3D snapshot of all the items in front of it. This is to assess, as to where should he grip the object so that it is held tightly. After that it will try to find the barcode. If he does not find it, he will place the item on the table and will lift it in another position so that the barcode is visible. Having scanned the barcode, it will place the item in the bag.
KURMET bipedal:
This model has been developed by the Ohio State University. The two motorized legs allow it to hop and bounce and even clear obstacles by high jump. It would not be too haphazard to imagine Bots running a 100 meter hurdle race after watching the video provided below. The big arm which you will see does not aid jumping at all. It just makes the system a bit simpler. There are no predetermined rules which the system needs to follow when given a typical input. It learns this in a training process. Hence you will encounter the word “FUZZY†in the video:
DLR hand arm:
This arm is developed by the German Aerospace Centre and it can effectively withstand a beating from a baseball bat. Now that is really tough! The actuators and the network components of this humanoid arm are assembled in such a way that they can absorb and dissipate energy in the same manner as the human arm does except for the fact that it does not get bruised. It comprises of a supercapacitor based power supply, ultra-miniaturized electronic control and a total of 52 motors.
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PARKOUR BOT:
It can also be called as a gymnast robot. It has two springy legs which allow it to bounce between the walls placed in quadrature as seen in the Supermario. It has an impressive insect like design. The angle of the legs and the tension in the muscles are handled independently and effectively by the bot. It also uses a gyroscope to level itself between the wall jumps.
More of such interesting, innovative ideas and anthropomorphic designs such as deep-sea diving submarine robots, robots that are able to write calligraphy were discussed and exhibited at the conference. I think this Conference gave a global platform to all the hardworking researchers and engineers and will continue to do so in the future.
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Some of the interesting designs are as discussed below:
P2R:
P2R is a handy supermarket robot design which scans and packs your goods all by itself. The Bot designed at the Stanford University can easily pick up an object, can rotate it, find the barcode at the back and then finally place it in the bag. It follows the following procedure to do the above tasks. It quickly takes a 3D snapshot of all the items in front of it. This is to assess, as to where should he grip the object so that it is held tightly. After that it will try to find the barcode. If he does not find it, he will place the item on the table and will lift it in another position so that the barcode is visible. Having scanned the barcode, it will place the item in the bag.
KURMET bipedal:
This model has been developed by the Ohio State University. The two motorized legs allow it to hop and bounce and even clear obstacles by high jump. It would not be too haphazard to imagine Bots running a 100 meter hurdle race after watching the video provided below. The big arm which you will see does not aid jumping at all. It just makes the system a bit simpler. There are no predetermined rules which the system needs to follow when given a typical input. It learns this in a training process. Hence you will encounter the word “FUZZY†in the video:
DLR hand arm:
This arm is developed by the German Aerospace Centre and it can effectively withstand a beating from a baseball bat. Now that is really tough! The actuators and the network components of this humanoid arm are assembled in such a way that they can absorb and dissipate energy in the same manner as the human arm does except for the fact that it does not get bruised. It comprises of a supercapacitor based power supply, ultra-miniaturized electronic control and a total of 52 motors.
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PARKOUR BOT:
It can also be called as a gymnast robot. It has two springy legs which allow it to bounce between the walls placed in quadrature as seen in the Supermario. It has an impressive insect like design. The angle of the legs and the tension in the muscles are handled independently and effectively by the bot. It also uses a gyroscope to level itself between the wall jumps.
More of such interesting, innovative ideas and anthropomorphic designs such as deep-sea diving submarine robots, robots that are able to write calligraphy were discussed and exhibited at the conference. I think this Conference gave a global platform to all the hardworking researchers and engineers and will continue to do so in the future.
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