The
Robots
Centipede
Robot
This robot is made up of 10 of the above-described beetle
robots connected by 9 link systems. The 1st segment acts
as the master while the other 9 segments are the slaves.
The master sends information of its direction to the each
of the following slaves such that this information travels
down the spine of the centipede at a speed equal to the
speed of the body. The effect is similar to a railway
train with invisible tracks. I had trouble with this robot
and it moved for 2 metres before jacknifing due to the
slightly different speeds of each section.
The centipede shown here first walked back in November
1998. Twenty new 3dof-each-leg tutorial robot beetles
are now being assembled to revisit the centipede. The
idea is to give each robot two-way non-contact communication
such that they can nose-to-tail each other.
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