Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03904
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 17:32:52 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Efficiency and Good Old Stryder
At 04:46 PM 5/28/1999 , you wrote:
>To a certain extent, yes. However, that robot is likely to be inefficient
>because it drags several legs (at least two, more probably three) each time
>it steps.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it is dragging only one leg to a significant
degree. One of the front legs is in the air, while the other front leg and
it's rear-diagonal partner are rotating essentially on the point of the leg
(but with small bit of sliding to compensate for change in flat-plane
geometry), and the other rear leg gets the most slide. Then as Stryder
reaches it's center of gravity, the rear sliding leg gets pulled into the
air as the diagonal opposite front leg hits the surface.
-Dave
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