P3 and ASIMO – The Honda Humanoid Robots

This is the second of my Bipedal robots. Pinocchio is my first and Giantor is my second. The construction for the Biped robots are based mostly on materials supplied by PLASTRUCT. Although some parts, such as the Torso and feet came elsewhere. The Torso is from a plastic toy pail I found in Toys R [...]

The Robot Calibrator is a measurement system that includes three string-encoders mounted to a metal base plate and used to measure the position of a robot in three space. Combining the three string ends and attaching them to a robot arm provides an inexpensive and relatively accurate position sensor with respect to the calibrator base. [...]

Reproducible and widely known challenges can help evolving fields by providing reference problems with measures of performance which allow researchers to compare implementations, communicate results, and leverage each other’s work. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed the Reference Test Arenas for Autonomous Mobile Robots to focus research efforts, provide direction, and accelerate [...]

NIST is developing metrics, measures, data, and analysis methods to quantitatively evaluate component technologies and integration strategies in order to accelerate the development of intelligent behaviors in unmanned vehicle systems.
Our main thrust areas are the following:
1. Task Analysis for Driving

Task decomposition and path planning methods and algorithms
Real/Virtual worlds for on-road driving
Road map for autonomous on-road [...]

Sgt William Briley of the Atlanta PD Bomb knows what he’s talking about. He used to be a bomber for the military, blowing up bridges in Vietnam. He told Kris Tech Robot Magazine that “robots are the key to bomb safety, considering the increased trend of bombing in the U.S.”
Bombings Increasing? Absolutely. [...]

The manual that Graymark included with the Scooter kit has four major sections: Electrical theory, electrical construction, mechanical construction, and a testing & debugging section. If electrical construction is completed cleanly and correctly, then the debugging section is unnecessary. It’s a comprehensive, easy to read, step-by-step manual.

Once I was able to [...]

Here’s an inexpensive kit from Graymark to help you learn motor theory, transistor switching and R/C time constant circuits. Comes with an excellent instruction book of lessons, schematics and troubleshooting guide. Scooter changes direction when you clap your hands or when it hits an object. See KrisTech’s independent First-Person, First-Robot Review [...]

Each MD-2 system comes complete with our DOS-based MD-2 motion control program, which gives you complete control of up to 6 motors from a single computer. Motor speed, travel distance, limits, units, and other parameters can be edited easily and saved to disk. Single and dual-motor moves, including linear and circular [...]

Would you like to automate a task but don’t know how? Have you looked through some motion control catalogs and been shocked by the complexity? Most vendors expect you to select and match motors, drivers, power supplies, and cables, then write your own software. We’ve cut through the confusion and created the [...]

Our administrator present a range of materials that can be incorporated in the creation of educational robots, in the last LEGO catalog, presents a solar panel is complemented by the NXT Intelligent Brick, denominate “extra set of renewable energy,” an updated version of the solar panels contained in the September Elab. This additional set for [...]