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Enjoy today’s videos!
Over the past few months the team at Everyday Robots, alongside Artist-in-Residence Catie Cuan, have been working on an experiment that transforms the robots from everyday physical tools to musical instruments. We map the joint velocities of the robot onto musical tracks, so the robot makes music while it moves—something akin to a “music mode.”
[ Everyday Robots ]
The ROS-Industrial open-source project reached the 10-year mark, and to celebrate, we reached out to the community to share snippets of the great work they have been doing. ROS-I seeks to extend ROS and now ROS 2 to industrially relevant hardware and applications, and the community has been a key part in realizing the successes to date. Thanks to all those that submitted, and we look forward to more success stories in the years to come!
[ ROS-I ]
Planning minimum-time trajectories in cluttered environments with obstacles is a challenging problem. The presented method achieves a 100 percent success rate of flying minimum-time policies without collision, while traditional planning and control approaches achieve only 40 percent. We show the approach in real-world flight with speeds reaching 42 kilometers per hour and acceleration up to 3.6 g.
[ UZH RPG ]
This work tackles the problem of robots collaboratively towing a load with cables to a specified goal location while avoiding collisions in real time. The introduction of cables (as opposed to rigid links) enables the robotic team to travel through narrow spaces by changing its intrinsic dimensions through slack/taut switches of the cable.
[ UC Berkeley ]
After analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed dust and rock from the asteroid’s surface. It turns out that the particles making up Bennu’s exterior are so loosely packed and lightly bound to each other that if a person were to step onto Bennu they would feel very little resistance, as if stepping into a pit of plastic balls that are popular play areas for kids.
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.