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- Urs, Karthik, Carlson, Jessica, Srinivas Manohar, Aditya, Rakowiecki, Michael, Alkayyali, Abdulhadi, Saunders, John E., Tulbah, Faris, and Moore, Talia Y.
- Description:
- Robotic models are useful for independently varying specific features, but most quadrupedal robots differ so greatly from animal morphologies that they have minimal evolutionary relevance. Commercially available quadrupedal robots are also prohibitively expensive for biological research programs and difficult to customize. Here, we present a low-cost quadrupedal robot with modular legs that can match a wide range of animal morphologies for biomechanical hypothesis testing. The Robot Of Theseus (TROT) costs ≈$4000 to build out of 3D printed parts and standard off-the-shelf supplies. Each limb consists of 2 or 3 rigid links; the proximal joint can be rotated to become a knee or elbow. Telescoping mechanisms vary the length of each limb link. The open-source software accommodates user-defined gaits and morphology changes. Effective leg length, or crouch, is determined by the four-bar linkage actuating each joint. The backdrivable motors can vary virtual spring stiffness and range of motion.
- Keyword:
- Robo-physical model, quadruped, locomotion, morphology, and biomechanics
- Citation to related publication:
- Urs, Carlson, Srinivas Manohar, Rakowiecki, Alkayyali, Saunders, Tulbah, Moore. (forthcoming) The Robot of Theseus: A modular robotic testbed for legged locomotion.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Wu, Ziyou and Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- The data in this repository is a nearly unique dataset at the time of its making -- precise measurements of all contact forces of a 6-legged robot during multi-legged slipping motions and regular walking. These data were collected to establish the validity of the observation presented in this article: Zhao et al. Walking is like slithering: A unifying, data-driven view of locomotion. (2022) PNAS 119(37): e113222119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113222119
- Keyword:
- robot, locomotion, and multilegged
- Citation to related publication:
- Science Robotics paper being submitted
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Holmes, Patrick
- Description:
- This work was collected to evaluate Stability Basins for characterizing the limits of human stability during Sit-to-Stand. and MATLAB code was used to process the data into individual trials. Trials are labeled by Sit-to-Stand type (Natural, Momentum-Transfer, or Quasi-Static) and experimental condition. MATLAB code for analyzing the data and computing Stability Basins is provided. A GUI is provided to animate a subject's movement and display projections of the Stability Basins in the horizontal and vertical planes.
- Keyword:
- biomechanics, mathematical model, locomotion, fall risk, reachability, and feedback control
- Citation to related publication:
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01876 and Holmes, P. D., Danforth, S. M., Fu, X.-Y., Moore, T. Y., & Vasudevan, R. (n.d.). Characterizing the limits of human stability during motion: Perturbative experiment validates a model-based approach for the Sit-to-Stand task. Royal Society Open Science, 7(1), 191410. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191410
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan
- Description:
- This dataset contains the videos used for https://doi.org/10.7302/m05a-0d90 (the "raw" motion tracking dataset), and is intended to be unpacked into the same directory tree. The data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion. The data were also used extensively in examining multi-contact slipping, in the studying the influence of number of legs on otherwise identical locomotion patterns, and in the use of geometric mechanics models for multilegged locomotion. Folder and file names encode the meta-data, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README.
- Keyword:
- phase, multilegged, robot, and locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan. BIRDS Lab Multipod robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/m05a-0d90, Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985, and Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion. The data were also used extensively in examining multi-contact slipping, in the studying the influence of number of legs on otherwise identical locomotion patterns, and in the use of geometric mechanics models for multilegged locomotion. Folder and file names encode the meta-data, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README.
- Keyword:
- phase, multilegged, robot, and locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0 and Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- This repository contains both the data and python3 code that reads this data and reproduces the relevant figures. The code depends on NumPy >1.17 and matplotlib >3.1 and was tested on python 3.8
- Keyword:
- locomotion, slipping, low Reynolds number, walking, and slithering
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering