A Biologically Inspired Height-Adjustable Jumping Robot

Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

This paper presents an integrated, systems-level view of several novel design and control features associated with the biologically inspired, hexapedal, RiSE (Robots in Scansorial Environments) robot. RiSE is the first legged machine capable of locomotion on both the ground and a variety of vertical building surfaces including brick, stucco, and crushed stone at speeds up to 4 cm/s, quietly and...

A biologically inspired four legged walking robot

Biologically Inspired Miniature Water Strider Robot

Recent biological studies on water strider insects revealed the detailed mechanism of their staying and walking on water. While macro scale bodies use buoyancy to stay on water, these very light and small insects balance their weight using repulsive surface tension forces where the insect legs are covered with hydrophobic micro-hairs. Utilizing the unique scaling advantage of these insects, thi...

Biologically Inspired Vision for Indoor Robot Navigation

Ultrasonic, infrared, laser and other sensors are being applied in robotics. Although combinations of these have allowed robots to navigate, they are only suited for specific scenarios, depending on their limitations. Recent advances in computer vision are turning cameras into useful low-cost sensors that can operate in most types of environments. Cameras enable robots to detect obstacles, reco...

Biologically Inspired Robot Grasping Using Genetic Programming

This paper describes the innovative use of a genetic algorithm to solve the grasp synthesis problem for multifingered robot hands. The goal of our algorithm is to select a ‘best’ grasp of an object, given some information about the object geometry and some userdefined ‘fitness functions’ which intuitively delineate ‘good’ from ‘bad’ grasp qualities. The fitness functions are used by the special...