The horse thing has been done. Start in about the middle of this video: https://youtu.be/JGNopwFcz3A
Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 12:44 PM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > While I was in grad school around 1966, we had a big ARPA (?) grant to > build a robotic horse. It was designed to be able to move with any of the > possible gaits. The project was not successful because the horse was very > heavy and the available motors at the time could not move it fast enough to > get dynamic stability. So in the end all it could do was walk slowly with > only one leg off the ground at a time. Sometime it’s not the computer side > that prevents advances in robotics. > > Ed > _______________________ > > Ed Angel > > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Apr 3, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For those who haven't seen the video that was mentioned in yesterday's > meeting: > > https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw > > Marc has accomplished a lot since this: > > > - Raibert, M. H., Wimberly, F. C. 1984. Tabular control of balance in > a dynamic legged system. *IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics* > 14:334--339. > > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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