RobotManiacs.com http://robotmaniacs.com Robots, and Much more Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 University of Malaga: Backward motion jackknife avoidance for multi-trailer mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-9 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-9#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:56 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-9 Backward motion control of an articulated robotic vehicle with off-axle passive trailers, as presented in the paper ‘Virtual Steering Limitations for Reversing an Articulated Vehicle with Off-Axle Passive Trailers. Jesús Morales, Jorge L. Martínez, Anthony Mandow, and Itza J. Medina. 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009). Porto, Portugal’. Two heterogeneous off-axle trailers are hitched to the tracked mobile robot Auriga-? and a predefined path is followed by the last trailer.

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]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-8/feed 0 Where to get a good robot kit? http://robotmaniacs.com/robot-kits/where-to-get-a-good-robot-kit http://robotmaniacs.com/robot-kits/where-to-get-a-good-robot-kit#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:22:11 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/robot-kits/where-to-get-a-good-robot-kit Where is a good place to buy a robot kit that you can program. The lego mindstorms are a bit too expensive and I’m on a budget of around 200 or less.

http://www.machinescience.org/store/home.php

http://www.kitsusa.net/phpstore/index.php

http://www.electronickits.com

]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/robot-kits/where-to-get-a-good-robot-kit/feed 1 Multi-material polymer prototyping for sub-cm mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-3 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-3#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:36:08 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-3 This video describes and demonstrates a multi-material polymer prototyping process for quickly, easily, and inexpensively fabricating simple mobile robots. While this process uses low efficiency shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators for now, these will eventually be replaced with more efficient actuators (electrostatics or piezoelectrics). Our goal is to reduce design cycle time and cost for sub-cm mobile robots to test new methods of locomotion at this size scale.

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]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-3/feed 0 University of Malaga: Backward motion jackknife avoidance for multi-trailer mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-7 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-7#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:17:46 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-7 Backward motion control of an articulated robotic vehicle with off-axle passive trailers, as presented in the paper ‘Virtual Steering Limitations for Reversing an Articulated Vehicle with Off-Axle Passive Trailers. Jesús Morales, Jorge L. Martínez, Anthony Mandow, and Itza J. Medina. 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009). Porto, Portugal’. Two heterogeneous off-axle trailers are hitched to the tracked mobile robot Auriga-? and a predefined path is followed by the last trailer.

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]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-7/feed 0 Multi-material polymer prototyping for sub-cm mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-2 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-2#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:50:19 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots-2 This video describes and demonstrates a multi-material polymer prototyping process for quickly, easily, and inexpensively fabricating simple mobile robots. While this process uses low efficiency shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators for now, these will eventually be replaced with more efficient actuators (electrostatics or piezoelectrics). Our goal is to reduce design cycle time and cost for sub-cm mobile robots to test new methods of locomotion at this size scale.

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]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/multi-material-polymer-prototyping-for-sub-cm-mobile-robots/feed 0 University of Malaga: Backward motion jackknife avoidance for multi-trailer mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-6 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-6#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:31:37 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-6 Backward motion control of an articulated robotic vehicle with off-axle passive trailers, as presented in the paper ‘Virtual Steering Limitations for Reversing an Articulated Vehicle with Off-Axle Passive Trailers. Jesús Morales, Jorge L. Martínez, Anthony Mandow, and Itza J. Medina. 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009). Porto, Portugal’. Two heterogeneous off-axle trailers are hitched to the tracked mobile robot Auriga-? and a predefined path is followed by the last trailer.

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]]> http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-6/feed 0 University of Malaga: Backward motion jackknife avoidance for multi-trailer mobile robots http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-5 http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-5#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:00:08 +0000 Juan Pablo http://robotmaniacs.com/mobile-robots/university-of-malaga-backward-motion-jackknife-avoidance-for-multi-trailer-mobile-robots-5 Backward motion control of an articulated robotic vehicle with off-axle passive trailers, as presented in the paper ‘Virtual Steering Limitations for Reversing an Articulated Vehicle with Off-Axle Passive Trailers. Jesús Morales, Jorge L. Martínez, Anthony Mandow, and Itza J. Medina. 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009). Porto, Portugal’. Two heterogeneous off-axle trailers are hitched to the tracked mobile robot Auriga-? and a predefined path is followed by the last trailer.

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