Videos and other references from lecture

November


Tues 11/1
Boston Dynamics Petman Robot video

Thurs 11/3
Indoor Autonomous Hover of a Fixed-Wing Vehicle (Paul Oh) video

Tues Nov. 8
Pendulum on cart.
P. Reist and R. Tedrake, ``Simulation-based LQR-trees with input and state constraints,'' ICRA 2010.
simulation
Lab 5d video EE128 Lab 5D

Thurs. Nov. 10
Kazerooni Lab, Exoskeleton, IROS 2011

Tues. Nov. 15
Kick Ball
New more dynamic ASIMO! (Link courtesy of S. Chan). Spectrum brief article link

Tues. Nov. 22
Stanford Autonomous Helicopter (Prof. P. Abbeel) video
Robot riding bicycle (Dr. Guero) video

Tues. Nov. 29

Single cell animal control.
Neutrophil chasing a bacteria: Movie
Control of single cell paramecium: Movie
Swarm of Bacteria Builds Tiny Pyramid (S. Martel) Movie
Intuitive Surgical robot. video

October

Tues 10/4, Thurs 10/6 no video

Tues 10/11/2011
Hummingbird flight control Movie

Thur 10/13/2011
No video

Thur 10/20/2011
EECS192 Mechatronics Design Lab NATCAR

Tues 10/25/2011 DASH+Wings Wing assisted runnning

Thurs 10/27/2011
``Superhuman Performance of Surgical Tasks by Robots using Iterative Learning from Human-Guided Demonstrations,'' Jur van den Berg, Stephen Miller, Daniel Duckworth, Humphrey Hu, Andrew Wan, Xiao-Yu Fu, Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel. Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010

August

8/25/2011
A Probabilistic Approach to Mixed Open-loop and Closed-loop Control, with Application to Extreme Autonomous Driving J. Zico Kolter, Christian Plagemann, David T. Jackson, Andrew Y. Ng, and Sebastian Thrun. Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. Movie

8/30/2011
Flight forces and altitude regulation of 12 gram i-Bird. S. Baek and R.S. Fearing, BioRob 2010. Movie
Flight Control for Target Seeking by 13 gram Ornithopter S.S. Baek, F.L. Garcia Bermudez, and R.S. Fearing, IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, to appear Sept. 2011. Movie

September

9/1/2011
From Compliant Balancing to Dynamic Walking on Humanoid Robot: Integration of CNS and CPG, Sang-Ho Hyon, Jun Morimoto and Mitsuo Kawato IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, May 2010.

9/6/2011

Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects: Part I- System Modeling X. Deng, L. Schenato, W-C. Wu, and S. Sastry, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 22, no. 4, August 2006.
Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects: Part II- Flight Control Design X. Deng, L. Schenato, W-C. Wu, and S. Sastry, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 22, no. 4, August 2006. Simulation of MFI orientation recovery
Prof. Xinyan Deng, Video of fly recovering from updside down

9/8/2011

Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory 60 milligram RoboBee link
Wing Motion
Tethered Takeoff, uncontrolled
Prof. Robert J. Wood

Tues 9/13/2011
(Link courtesy of A. Schuler)
Prof. R. D'Andrea, ETH Zurich, Ball Juggling Quadrotors
Youtube

Thurs 9/15/2011
Richard James Donald Moore, Saul Thurrowgood, Daniel Peter Bland, Dean Soccol, Mandyam V. Srinivasan: UAV altitude and attitude stabilisation using a coaxial stereo vision system. ICRA 2010: 29-34.

Tues 9/20/2011
M. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, B. E. Kratochvil, R. Borer, A. Sengul, B. J. Nelson, "OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2010 Video

Thur 9/22/2011
Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight
Univ. of Pennsylvania Movie

Tues 9/27/2011
D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, and Bradley J. Nelson, ``MagMites - Microrobots for Wireless Microhandling in Dry and Wet Environments,'' Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2010 Video

Thur 9/29/2011
A. Bachrach, N. Roy, et al. ``Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS-denied Environments,'' video