Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12614
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "John A. deVries II" zozzles@lanl.gov
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:00:45 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Challenge? Online robot simulator software
At 02:15 PM 3/27/00 , Spencer wrote:
>I've seen spyder, and its awesome, are those knees controlled by another
>bicore, is that what your getting at?
I'm thinking of the venerable old Spyder robot that bounces nicely when you
drop it even when it is powered off. And I've got to disagree about its
control circuitry -- I have the impression that its electronics are rather
more like what you'd find in the patent, in other words, a microcore with
leg "chains" extending off of the four corners.
However, I'm not really interested so much in the control stuff. Mostly
I'm interested in using something like Constructor as a mechanical design
tool -- where one of its "muscles" would probably correspond to a spring
(for added compliance -- what Richard Piotter notes) and a motor. Can
anyone imagine making shock absorbers for a BEAM robot? I just looked at
the picture of Spyder on the Solarbotics site again
http://www.solarbotics.com/images/hirez/walkers/62_2%20MWT%20spyder.jpg
and it certainly looks like it has those too!
Z
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