Walloid from CAD design to being built ...

Walloid Design

Walloid, per today built in Aluminium and ABS Plastic printed by 3D printer

Climbing gaits flash presentation updated ...

Climbing gaits page was updated with the latest pictures and flash presentation of the gaits.

Thesis is handed, I am tiered ...

The master thesis is handed in. I am tiered. I need some time to update contents of last months work online ... I am very tiered ...

Walloid Dragging Climbing Gait (Fast)

Dragged Gait

Dragging Gait

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Rotational Gait

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Walloid Optimized Climbing Gait

Optimized Gait

Optimized Climbing Gait

Walloid Simple Climbing Gait

Simple Pull-up

Simple Climbing Gait

End Effector Design

Preparing for Xbee practical test for distributed embedded systems

Arduino Fio(x4), Arduino Mega(x1), Arduino Ethernet shield(x1), Xbee modules(x5), Xbee shileld(x1), Xbee Explorer(x1)

Climbing gait 3D motion design, ongoing

Not ready yet ...

Taking action is important

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
- Sir John Lubbock

Thesis progress

The numbers on the right side are numbers of pages while the numbers in the bottom are the dates.

The benefits of taking action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W Clement Stone

3D visualization of the climbing gait

early design

Ethics & Robotics

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov and later expanded upon. The rules are introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they were foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Source : Wiki

Thread programming is a key element

Thread programming in writing high speed stream of data is a key point in navigation systems. Effective DAQ system is critical in such systems and the idea of synchronization between different threads and the communication channels between different threads are also very important. More about this later ...

Brain storming

Engineers facing the world ...

Engineers believe they can fix everything and in case of failure, they are humble enough to accept carry the guilt personally and mention that it is them who can not solve the challenge, but a challenge always has a solution :-)

I like to be an engineer ;-)

:-S

I feel I got a lot to do ...

Nice quote ...

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: 

- First, what could I do? - Second, what could I read? - And third, who could I ask?

- Jim Rohn

Climbing patterns

Fast climbing with degrees from 0 - 360 degrees

Slow climbing with either upwards and downwards, or right and left

The combination of these two types of climbing can give a combination of very fast climbing plus precise climbing when needed. Also fast climbing method gives robot the chance to move to directions from 0 - 360 degrees.