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Quadrotor robots throw, catch and balance inverted pendulum

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments26 February 2013

quadrotors-juggling-1A student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich developed an algorithm which enables two quadrotors to balance an inverted pendulum and juggle it among each other. In order to achieve this stunt, the researchers had to set theoretical models of the process, and engineer the complete system of balancing, throwing, catching, and… »

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Team B-Human won the RoboCup 2010 Standard Platform League

By Damir Beciri
9 July 2010

b-human-robocup-2010The RoboCup is a fascinating combination of innovative research and one of the world’s most popular team sports – soccer. Standard Platform League is a league in which all teams use the same robot platform (Aldebaran’s Nao humanoid robot we described in the last year’s article about RoboCup 2009) so the teams are challenged to… »

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Razero ball balancing robot prototype got its new groove

By Damir Beciri
One Comment7 June 2010

razero-concept-bridgeWe already wrote about a robot that balances on a ball named BallIP, and in this article we’re going to write about a robot which uses a similar concept and developed design. Rezero is the name of a robot which is currently developed by a team of thirteen students. The prototype just got a modern… »

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BallIP robot is able to balance on a ball while it carries weight

By Damir Beciri
One Comment14 May 2010

ballip-robot-balancing-on-a-ball-1Dr. Masaaki Kumagai, director of the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory at Tohoku Gakuin University, in Tagajo City, Japan, and his student Takaya Ochiai have built a robot named BallIP (Ball Inverted Pendulum) that is able to balance on a ball. Such a ball-balancing design is like an inverted pendulum, and thus naturally unstable, but it… »