Can Your Aibo Do This? - DARPA’s Robotic Rock Climbing Dog
Little Dog is the latest step in the evolution of the all purpose robotic pack-mule, product of DARPA’s Learning Locomotion Program.
USC professor Stefan Schall, working with Boston Dynamics, is using Little Dog as a software and sensor tool to research methods of negotiate difficult terrain.
Little Dog has been designed to continually evaluate it’s positioning and center of gravity, dynamically adjust its walking pattern based on position, velocity and acceleration. If its footing fails, it learns from it’s mistakes and attempts an alternet route.
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