Modular Robotics PolyBot PARC - Modular Robotics - Chain - Demonstrations
PolyBot Versions: G1 • G1v4 • G2 • G3
G1 Reconfiguration
 

The robot started out as a loop. Reconfigured into a snake (by detaching one point). Went down some steps and into a hole. All of this was open loop. A human placed and guided the robot from the steps to the hole. Primarily this demonstrated the loop gait, the snake gait and the ability to go down steps and into holes.

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References

"Two Approaches to Distributed Manipulation", Distributed Manipulation, ed. by H. Choset and K. Bohringer, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000

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Last updated Jan. 2002