This demo was completed a last year and is featured on our home page. Follow the link to see a demonstration of the FREE module in a faux kitchen setting. https://youtu.be/gT5bpmcvvNI … [Read more...]
Michigan Lab Trip
The lab took a trip to Michigan University last weekend to meet up with our partners and tour the school. Among other things, we got to see a demo of the Cassie biped robot that Michigan has been working on a controller for. https://youtu.be/_mGemyJX8Z4 … [Read more...]
Updated Workspace
Back in the lab today. I was recording some more data on the now shortened FREE module and came across a couple problems. First, the software I was using to plot the points did not allow me to change the scale of the axes, so the scatter plot looks flat no matter what. I switched to using a website called Plotly instead. Second, I broke another FREE… It didn’t pop like the … [Read more...]
Module Workspace
The other day I was taking videos of the FREE module to analyze in Tracker, I went up to 15 PSI like I had been doing, and I accidentally popped one…Fortunately it popped at the end so I could cut off the broken part and just make the whole module shorter. Though I didn’t finish the first dataset, I can still compare it to data from the shorter module and examine how length … [Read more...]
“Tracker” Motion Tracking
Our current focus is trying to create a video demonstration of FREE rotation by having one solve a combination lock. Meanwhile, I have been gathering positional data on our 70 degree wrapped four-FREE module. My lab partner Ryan is working on getting a camera working for live motion tracking, but until then I’m using a video analysis program called Tracker to record the … [Read more...]