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Outdoors

UC Berkeley’s “Hyper-Aggressive Pogo-Stick” Robot Now Works Outdoors

by Venus W. Jones February 28, 2023
by Venus W. Jones February 28, 2023 0 comment

UC Berkeley’s Salto has been one of our favorite robots because 2016, which makes it antique-ish in robot years. While it’s kept the identical “hyper-competitive pogo-stick” concept, a sequence of enhancements has endowed Salto with the capability to do an increasing number of dynamic maneuvers.

The authentic Salto may want to make two jumps in a row. Thrusters introduced in 2017 gave the robot the control it had to chain a couple of jumps collectively. And late closing 12 months at IROS and stepped forward controller gave Salto the intelligence that it had to make pinpoint jumps that allowed it to traverse a chain of vertical limitations (and extra).

The large constraint has constantly been that for Salto to keep itself upright and in one piece, it had to soar inside a motion-capture environment, which restrained its usefulness to (allow’s be honest) now not plenty extra than a fab research mission and particularly effective YouTube video view generator.

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Today at ICRA, UC Berkeley roboticists Justin Yim and Eric Wang (from Ron Fearing’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab) supplied the state-of-the-art model of Salto, which adds the sensing and computing required to dispose of the movement-capture device absolutely. Salto can now jump as a whole lot as you want out of the lab, and in reality, completely outside.

The new onboard mindset estimation and hopping manage the device (known as SHOVE, for SLIP Hopping Orientation and Velocity Estimator) is powerful enough for Salto to leap continuously even on compliant surfaces like foam. It uses dead reckoning to estimate how an awful lot its role modifications with every bounce, or even after three hundred jumps over the direction of several minutes, this estimate most effective drifts by a meter or two (representing an error of much less than 1 centimeter in keeping with a jump).

However, the difficult component right now is correctly estimating Salto’s mindset, by which we count on the researchers to imply its orientation (as opposed to how “hyper-competitive” it’s far). Attitude estimate errors of about 1 degree result in foot placement locations that vary via about half a meter from soar to leap. In practice, because of this, Salto can’t plan its jumps with sufficient precision to reliably climb stairs.

This is being labored on, although, and the researchers expect that “better precision estimation and manage can permit leaping on more finely various surfaces like stairs, furniture, or other outcroppings” in addition to “soft substrates like upholstery or natural foliage.”

The researchers tell us that Salto’s hardware is capable enough at this point that aside from probably upgrading the motor or battery for more jumping energy or run time, the focal point now can be on new behaviors, even though they’re toying with the idea of adding a few kinds of the gripping foot so that Salto can release from, and land on, tree branches (!). And as for that “pair of legs” and “palms” that Professor Ron Fearing mentions in the video, that might be pretty an improvement as nicely; however, I’ll continually have a gentle spot for Salto as a bouncy little monopod.

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Venus W. Jones

For the last eight years, I’ve been a travel blogger. I’m now based in Berlin, Germany, and have visited over 80 countries. I’ve lived in over 15 of them, and I hope to continue to explore new cultures and lifestyles. I love traveling by train, bike, or scooter and exploring local markets and food.

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