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The Berkeley Aerobotics group is also expanding its research scope into the advanced control and coordination of fixed-wing UAVs. Leveraging on their expertise, experiences, and thoroughly investigated flight control software from the rotary wing cousins...
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Berkeley Aerobot Team’s Ursa Electra UAV series is, as the name implies, based on an electrically powered radio-control helicopter, Maxi-Joker. It was originally designed to serve as the vehicle platform for a DARPA Perch-n-Move project. The helicopter...
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BEAR research facility features a fleet of BEAR helicopter UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, unmanned ground robots, and a mobile ground station. Since its beginning in 1996, more than six helicopters have been instrumented and five of them are in full service....
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The Berkeley Aerobot (BEAR) project is a collective, interdisciplinary research effort at UC Berkeley that encompasses the disciplines of hybrid systems theory, navigation, control, computer vision, communication, and multi-agent coordination, since 1996...
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The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) uses a miniature autonomous waypoint tracker flight control system, and the creation of a multi-vehicle platform for experimentation and validation of multi-agent control...
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The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) is a multi vehicle test bed used to demonstrate new concepts in multi agent control on a real-world platform. In order to make such a testbed easy to use, the Stanford team...
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Students at Carnegie Mellon University have employed external magnetic fields to controllably position and orient a magnetic micro-robot. They demonstrated this approach in the 2007 and 2008 RoboCup Nanogram Demonstrations. Imagine a mechanical Pelé or...
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The c-Link Systems Trak-Bot is a tabletop educational robotic vehicle used to explore and demonstrate autonomous vehicle motion. The robot is perfect for students and hobbyists to test motion programming or autonomous concepts that need to be demonstrated...
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Lindsay Lawler, inventor of the Electric Giraffe, discusses the project's past, present and future, from it's 10 month-long build cycle, to adventures at the Burning Man festival, to it's role in shaping the imaginations of future generations...
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John Gidney, a technician who runs NJIT’s Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering lab, and Dr. Kevin McDermott, a professor who's research interests are in the field of industrial robotics, discuss the Festo MPS and it's benefits to students...
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At the Vincent A. Stabile Laboratory at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, a companion robotics laboratory features 10 experimental stations, the Festo System, which gives students “hands-on” training in solving practical problems using robotics for...
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Robotics research at Stanford University has developed a climbing robot that is modeled after the best climber in the world, the gecko. The robot uses it's feet to peel off from the wall while actuators move the vehicle up the wall.
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The origins of the FIRST robotics competition goes back over thirty years and during those years, traditions and creative exercises evolved to what FIRST is and stands for today, success.
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The FIRST Robotics competition partnered with Lego to create a junior league and since then the league has grown to include the Junior League, the Vex Challenge and the FIRST Robotics Challenge.
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Competition at the FIRST Robotics challenge include several ways to test the engineering of the students robot, including an interesting game where random alliances are chosen and points are awarded based on the alliances performance.