Extension of the quadruped robot WARUGADAR

Part 1: project profile

Project name

Extension of the quadruped robot WARUGADAR.

Project short description

• Warugadar is still far from being a complete functional autonomous robot; the robot would benefit from the introduction of any other kind of sensor device that could allow it to be more aware of the surrounding environment. We want integrate on WARUGADAR one camera to provide it of visual sensibility.
• The Warugadar interface was developed in Matlab, we would translate in Pyro to benefit open source software.

Dates

• Start date: May 2008
• End date: March 2009 (max)

People involved

• Marco Deambrogi
• Giovanni Alfieri

Project head

• Prof. Giuseppina Gini
• Prof. Paolo Belluco

Students

• Marco Deambrogi
• Giovanni Alfieri

Laboratory work and risk analysis

Laboratory work for this project will be mainly performed at AIRLab/Lambrate. It will include significant amounts of mechanical work as well as of electrical and electronic activity. Potentially risky activities are the following:

• Use of mechanical tools. Standard safety measures described in Safety norms will be followed.