technologyvista: Osaka team fine-tunes quadruped robot Pneupard (Phys.org) —Click, clunk, whir, pitter-patter go the footsteps of numerous quadruped robots worldwide, but a recent report focuses on one walking robot, Pneupard, a project from Osaka University. Tuesdays IEEE Spectrum said Pneupard, the four-limbed robot powered by pneumatic muscles, has been fine-tuned by its researchers. The original version of Pneupard that the team designed had a lot of pneumatic muscles; controlling the robot became a huge challenge, said the update, and the researchers decided this time around to go lean and mean on the robots anatomy. The second version has fewer muscles. This made it easier for control and exploring different gaits. Last year, IEEE Spectrum first introduced the Pneupard as a robot with pneumatic artificial muscles as its primary means of locomotion. Jason Falconer wrote at the time, Pneumatic artificial muscles may be made from a rubber tube sheathed in nylon, but they contract much like the real thing when filled with air. They can pack a lot of power in short bursts and are also highly flexible and impact-resistant, giving them a lifelike quality that is often missing in robots powered by electric motors. Source bit.ly/1fOviVB
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 07:15:00 +0000
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