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Title: BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset Open Access Deposited

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  • We used a commercial motion tracking system (Qualisys QTM with 10 cameras) to track 3 different BigAnt v6 robots with motion tracking markers attached. The dataset contains picture of one of the robots with the markers highlighted. We ran each robot at multiple "turning parameter" values and gait frequencies, and some robots were run on both High friction (rubber mats) and Low friction (flat linoleum) ground. This is the "raw" dataset. It contain all markers tracked on each of the robot, and is prior to various data conditioning a clean-up (e.g. removing z changes due to slightly non-flat floors)
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  • These data were produced in an attempt to characterize the turning and steering behaviors of 1-DoF multi-legged (hexpedal in this case) robots. Such turning behaviors require sliding contact points. The .tar file contains multiple trials in .csv.gz format, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README. Additional metadata for the trials is given in the metadata.py file in both machine and human readable form.
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  • shrevzen@umich.edu
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  • Other Funding Agency
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Department of Defense (DOD)
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  • D. Dan and Betty Kahn Michigan-Israel Partnership for Research and Education Autonomous Systems Mega-Project
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  • 2018-03-28 to 2019-07-24
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Last modified
  • 11/18/2022
Published
  • 08/30/2021
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DOI
  • https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06
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To Cite this Work:
BIRDS Lab, U. M. (2021). BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06

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Raw data files for BigAnt robot motion tracking data collected at the University of Michigan's Bio-Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems Lab
(BIRDS-Lab) https://www.birds.eecs.umich.edu Principal Investigator: Shai Revzen

Collection of these data is the work of many people over a period of several years.

Data file names follow a naming convention, e.g. 2019-07-11-T+75_f22_gL_e2
Was a trial taken on July 11th, 2019,
with turning (T) rate +0.75,
at frequency (f) 0.22Hz,
on the Low friction ground (g) surface;
this was the 3rd experiment (e) with these parameters (e0 would have been the first).

All data files are .csv.gz files, with 9 header lines.
All data in the files are integers, in units of either 1.0 mm or 0.5 mm (see metadata.py for scale)
Typical python code for reading the data is:
from numpy import loadtxt
d = loadtxt('2019-07-11-T+75_f22_gL_e2.csv.gz',skiprows=9,delimiter=',')
xyz = d.reshape(d.shape[0],d.shape[1]//3,3)

The key technologies used to develop the robot were described in:

Fitzner, I.; Sun, Y.; Sachdeva, V. & Revzen, S.
Rapidly Prototyping Robots: Using Plates and Reinforced Flexures
IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine, 2017, 24, 41-47
https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2016.2639058

The data in this dataset was used in the following publications:

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

Zhao, D.
Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots"
University of Michigan 2021

and is currently being used in several additional manuscripts and pre-prints.

To Cite this Work:
BIRDS Lab, U. BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set],
University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06

Funding for the equipment was provided from:
University of Michigan start-up funds for Revzen
ARO W911NF-17-1-0243 "DRAKE: Dynamics, Robotics, And Kinematics Experiments"

Funding for researchers was provided from:
ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics"
ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems"
D. Dan and Betty Kahn Michigan-Israel Partnership for Research and Education Autonomous Systems Mega-Project
NSF CMMI 1825918 "Geometrically-Optimal Gait Optimization"

With particular thanks to Devin Miller & Haotian Li for their hard work on robot data collection.

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