ULISSE

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Walks of ULISSE robot

Project name

Analysis and realization of walks in mixed environment and new graphic user interface for a pneumatic four-leg robot

Project short description

We'll try to expand the the possible walks of the robot ULISSE and try to implement some sensors to allow the robot to "know where is" in the room: video sensors, touch sensors or ... .

We also will try to drive it with a camera put on it and find some future application for the robot.

Dates

Start date: 2008/06/17

End date: 2009/04/20

Project head

G. Gini

Students currently working on the project

Davide Valentino Fasani User:DavideFasani

Chiara Fornoni User:ChiaraFornoni

Students who worked on the project in the past

Lorenzo Molinaro

Cristian Salvaterra

Part 2: project description

  • state of the art;
  • design notes and guidelines;
  • description and results of experiments;
  • photos;
  • configuration and the use of hardware and software;


State of the art:

ULISSE is a four-leg robot, with an aluminium loom, twelve pneumatic pistons (three in each leg), twelve optical encoder to set the length of each piston, twenty-four air valve to insert air into pistons.

The control system is formed by a router, four network cards and wires to connect all the components.

It’s impossible to command the robot by an high-level interface, but it must be commanded by specify the lengthening of each piston, study the timing and the actions to reach the final goal.

ULISSE is formed by a parallel structure, so it’s very difficult to model it for the cinematic study.