• By pressing the controller thumbstick forward and aiming at a spot in their Home, users can utilize the new free-form locomotion functionality. (robots.net)
  • As part of the v57 software update for Meta Quest headsets, the company announced Monday a bevy of new features -- including more avatar customization options, an unsend message feature, group links, free-form locomotion ability in Horizon Home and a rebranded Explore feed. (yahoo.com)
  • Users can enable free-form locomotion by pressing the controller thumbstick forward and aiming at a spot in the Home to teleport. (yahoo.com)
  • I will conclude with a vision of how these models and representations can lead to innovative strategies for obstacle-aided locomotion, better understanding of animal gait transition behaviors, and embodied sensing of environment properties. (usc.edu)
  • First, the concept of "Multi-Locomotion Robot" that has multiple types of locomotion is introduced. (upenn.edu)
  • Slow-moving tumour cells had invadopodia, whereas fast-moving cells did not, and both types of locomotion were present in different regions of the same tumour. (nature.com)
  • Her research focuses on dynamic systems and control, with particular interest in modeling and control techniques to deal with the challenges of the underactuation, stochasticity, and dimensionality reduction that characterize bio-inspired robot locomotion and manipulation in real-world environments. (constantcontact.com)
  • Our robots mimic and extend upon the manipulation and locomotion capabilities of humans on a functional level. (dlr.de)
  • First, I will briefly review my previous work of animal and robot locomotion on granular terrain such as sand, debris, and gravel, and discuss how locomotors can manipulate granular responses and achieve effective locomotion on sand through adjustments in morphological parameters or contact strategy. (usc.edu)
  • Then I will present my recent work on creating simplified representations of robot interaction with perturbation-rich environments such as cluttered rubble or fallen tree trunks, and discuss how a multi-legged robot can adjust its gait patterns to exploit obstacle disturbances and generate different dynamics from the same physical environment. (usc.edu)
  • To investigate how the worm adjusts its gait to the environment microstructure, we implement a simple control system that chooses the right set of parameters based on the past interactions of the worm with its surroundings. (aps.org)
  • Further, it provides avariety of tasks relevant for soft robotics, including fast locomotion, agileturning, and path following, as well as differentiable design representationsfor morphology and control. (deeplearn.org)
  • In this talk, I will demonstrate how I integrate granular physics, bio-inspired robotics, and locomotion biomechanics to create interaction models that can guide design and control of bio-inspired robots to produce effective movement on challenging terrains. (usc.edu)
  • Prior to his current appointment, he was a Marie Curie/TMR postdoctoral fellow with the robotics group Icare of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Sophia-Antipolis, France. (upenn.edu)
  • His research interests lie in the areas of biologically-inspired robotics, sensor-based navigation and control, undulatory locomotion, nonlinear control and computational vision. (upenn.edu)
  • The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics develops a wide array of robots to enable humans to interact more safely and efficiently with their surrounding environments. (dlr.de)
  • We have developed a biologically inspired reconfigurable quadruped robot which can perform walking and rolling locomotion and transform between walking and rolling by reconfiguring its legs. (hindawi.com)
  • This paper presents an approach to control rolling locomotion with the biologically inspired quadruped robot. (hindawi.com)
  • Reconfigurable robots have the capability to adapt to different tasks and environments. (hindawi.com)
  • Reconfigurable robots inspired by a creature performing walking and rolling locomotion particularly provide the capability to attain the fast and energy-efficient movement on the flat ground with rolling locomotion and high stability and mobility on the uneven ground with walking locomotion. (hindawi.com)
  • For periodic rolling locomotion, we focus on robot's energy during rolling locomotion, though previous studies of rolling locomotion on reconfigurable robots [ 8 , 11 , 20 , 21 ] have focused on the movement of robot's center of gravity (COG). (hindawi.com)
  • Robustness, compactness, and portability of tensegrity robots make them suitable candidates for locomotion on unknown terrains. (frontiersin.org)
  • Locomotion strategies for such robots involve altering the position of center-of-mass (referred to as internal mass shifting) to induce "tip-over. (frontiersin.org)
  • This contrasts to the sudden and piece-wise continuous change for the case of robots with traditional straight links which generate impulse reaction forces during locomotion. (frontiersin.org)
  • The two resulting robots-the Icosahedron and the Sphericon Tensegrity Robots-display shape morphing (packing-unpacking) capabilities and achieve locomotion through internal mass-shifting. (frontiersin.org)
  • The presented static equilibrium analysis of sphericon with mass is the first step in the direction of dynamic locomotion control of these curved link robots. (frontiersin.org)
  • How Do Humans Adjust Their Motion Patterns in Mobile Robots Populated Retail Environments? (google.ca)
  • Despite these advantages, challenges remain relating to ease of fabrication, shape morphing (packing-unpacking), and locomotion capabilities. (frontiersin.org)
  • Horizon Home, the virtual home where users interact with each other, now offers improved locomotion capabilities. (robots.net)
  • With the release of the v57 software update, Meta Quest continues to enhance the user experience by providing more customization options, improved social features, and enhanced locomotion capabilities. (robots.net)
  • This distinctive morphology has resulted in several unique forms of locomotion. (wikipedia.org)
  • While significant research progress has been made in robot learning forcontrol, unique challenges arise when simultaneously co-optimizing morphology.Existing work has typically been tailored for particular environments orrepresentations. (deeplearn.org)
  • Robotic applications, which involve propulsion in unstructured environments, require understanding, and exploiting, the relationship between robot morphology and the control of its movement. (upenn.edu)
  • This talk will focus on robotic systems inspired by the morphology and locomotion of the polychaete annelid marine worms and of the centipede arthropods, which combine body undulations with the action of numerous lateral appendages, to propel themselves efficiently on sand, mud, sediment, as well as underwater. (upenn.edu)
  • Previous studies have tested the flow parsing hypothesis in virtual environments during simulated locomotion, but demonstrate systematic distortions of object-motion perception in the allocentric frame of reference. (rpi.edu)
  • We observed that object-motion perception was accurate and more precise only if observers were actively walking through a textured environment. (rpi.edu)
  • The inaccuracies of object-motion perception during simulated locomotion and in the untextured environment have implications for the role of non-visual information about self-motion during object-motion perception. (rpi.edu)
  • In this review article we address the problem of distance perception during locomotion. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this paper, by introducing a few underactuated locomotion systems, we explain (1) how mechanical body structures are related to motor control in locomotion behavior, (2) how a simple computational control process can generate complex locomotion behavior, and (3) how a motor control architecture can exploit the body dynamics through a learning process. (sciweavers.org)
  • Behavior is the interface through which animals interact with their environments, and therefore has potentially cascading impacts on the health of individuals, populations, their habitats, and the humans that share them. (awionline.org)
  • Downstream tasks for this environment include reaching target locations in the environment and navigating through sequences of rooms. (google.com)
  • Downstream tasks for the ant include reaching target locations in the environment, navigating through sequences of waypoints, and reaching target locations while avoiding other locations. (google.com)
  • In order to more fully understand inherent design andperformance tradeoffs and accelerate the development of new breeds of softrobots, a comprehensive virtual platform with well-established tasks,environments, and evaluation metrics is needed. (deeplearn.org)
  • Nano-devices are any type of machines that will be able to perform any type of function in the nano-environment, even tasks that do not require any motion or force generation. (nanotech-now.com)
  • In a more general sense, they perform any tasks of locomotion and interaction with the environment with a wide range of autonomy to suit different tasks. (dlr.de)
  • In addition to blind locomotion, the team will demonstrate the robot's improved hardware, including an expanded range of motion compared to its predecessor Cheetah 2, that allows the robot to stretch backwards and forwards, and twist from side to side, much like a cat limbering up to pounce. (mit.edu)
  • My research aims to generate simplified models and representations of locomotor-terrain interactions, and improve robot mobility in complex environments. (usc.edu)
  • Dr. Byl will give an overview of recent work on rough terrain locomotion. (constantcontact.com)
  • For controlling rolling locomotion, a controller which can compensate robot's energy loss during rolling locomotion is designed based on a dynamic model of the quadruped robot. (hindawi.com)
  • The quadruped robot loses some of robot's energy due to collision and contact with the ground while rolling, and therefore it cannot perform periodic rolling locomotion without energy supply. (hindawi.com)
  • We have optimized the design mechanism presented in [ 18 ] and have developed reconfigurable robotic platforms which can perform walking and rolling locomotion and transform between walking and rolling by reconfiguring their legs. (hindawi.com)
  • In this paper, we discuss periodic rolling locomotion control of one of our platforms called the huntsman-spider-inspired quadruped robot. (hindawi.com)
  • The robot has no practical application yet, but Festo's models could help equip future platforms with amazingly adaptable locomotion. (zdnet.com)
  • The development of computational models for the mechanics and motion control of such systems, involving the dynamics of the system and its interaction with the environment, will be presented, as well as the related SIMUUN computational tools. (upenn.edu)
  • UCSB has been collaborating with JPL and other organizations to improve mobility in complex environments. (constantcontact.com)
  • In conclusion, it is shown that the proposed control approach is effective in achieving the periodic rolling locomotion on the flat ground. (hindawi.com)
  • We show that the quadruped robot performs periodic rolling locomotion with energy-based control. (hindawi.com)
  • have focused on a caterpillar that can escape rapidly from predators by reconfiguring its body structure like a wheel and have developed a caterpillar-inspired soft robot, which has attempted rolling locomotion [ 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In this work, we introduceSoftZoo, a soft robot co-design platform for locomotion in diverseenvironments. (deeplearn.org)
  • Recent work includes new applications of stochastic models of buyer behaviour, validating virtual reality shopping environments, investigating low attention advertising effects in social media, investigating how deliberation affects consumer judgement, measuring public reaction to climate mitigation technologies, and proposing a functional model of the mind to help develop fMRI-testable hypotheses from subjective accounts of mental states. (massey.ac.nz)
  • Understanding LSTM Network Behaviour of IMU-Based Locomotion Mode Recognition for Applications in Prostheses and Wearables. (cdc.gov)
  • Polychaetes utilize their various appendages for sensing their environments, locomotion, and to aid in food capture. (fsu.edu)
  • The specific are the activities of daily living scales, which measure the performance of basic functional skills required to care for oneself independently, such as eating, grooming, bathing, dressing, locomotion, transfers, and continence, and may also measure cognitive abilities. (medscape.com)
  • This update includes enhancements such as expanded avatar customization options, an unsend message feature, group links, and improved locomotion abilities in Horizon Home. (robots.net)
  • With the MRK setup and the locomotion test facilities the experimental area currently contains two longer-term installations. (dfki-bremen.de)
  • Results of our simulations of the worm motion are compared with our experimental observations of C. elegans crawling in an agar environment containing an array of fabricated pillars. (aps.org)
  • The v57 update for Meta Quest headsets brings significant improvements and new features, including enhanced avatar customization, the ability to unsend messages, and improved locomotion in Horizon Home. (robots.net)
  • The dynamic model describes planar rolling locomotion based on an assumption that the quadruped robot does not fall down while rolling and the influences of collision and contact with the ground, and it is applied for computing the mechanical energy and a plant in a numerical simulation. (hindawi.com)
  • Common areas of investigation are Animal locomotion and feeding , as these have strong connections to the organism's fitness and impose high mechanical demands. (wikipedia.org)
  • We show that our method enables learning complex agile jumping behaviors, navigating to goal locations while walking on hind legs, and adapting to new environments. (roboticsconference.org)
  • King has focused on somersault rolling locomotion performed by a spider called "huntsman spider ( Cebrennus villosus )" and has developed a quadruped robot capable of somersaulting, which has performed somersault rolling locomotion [ 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Across the animal kingdom there are creatures that move through their environments not by walking or running or climbing but instead by simply changing the shape of their bodies. (phys.org)
  • Animals must understand the spatial relationships of objects in their environment for navigation. (elifesciences.org)
  • We argue that, in order to enhance the dexterity and adaptivity in robot navigation, we need to take into account the decentralized mechanisms which exploit physical system-environment interactions. (sciweavers.org)
  • Topics covered include homeostasis, the function of major organ systems, ecophysiology, musculoskeletal design and locomotion. (waikato.ac.nz)
  • Data collection was carried out in a virtual environment from June 2021 to February 2022, after approval by the Research Ethics Committee. (bvsalud.org)
  • La recolección de datos se realizó en ambiente virtual de junio de 2021 a febrero de 2022, previa aprobación del Comité de Ética en Investigación. (bvsalud.org)
  • All the environments in this work are simulated in MuJoCo. (google.com)
  • Instead, it nimbly "feels" its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as "blind locomotion," much like making one's way across a pitch-black room. (mit.edu)
  • This paper describes the design, analysis, and testing of the EHR's second-generation locomotion mechanism, based on a two-DOF parallel mechanism. (actapress.com)
  • Its dynamic model describes planar rolling locomotion based on an assumption that it does not fall down while rolling and the influences of collision and contact with the ground. (hindawi.com)
  • Bones are dynamic structures that are undergoing constant change and remodeling in response to the ever-changing environment. (medscape.com)
  • The methodology is used to explore different robot morphologies that attempt to minimize structural complexity (number of elements) while facilitating smooth locomotion (impact between robot and surface). (frontiersin.org)
  • In addition to teleporting within VR apps, users can now freely teleport within Home, allowing them to explore every nook and cranny of their virtual environment. (robots.net)
  • We need to have easy to use and accurate sensors that will be able to give us a "view" of the nano-mechanism and its environment. (nanotech-now.com)
  • This style of locomotion is known as punting and is very similar to walking as the force appears to be generated from direct contact with the ground. (wikipedia.org)
  • The numerical simulation of rolling locomotion on the flat ground verifies the effectiveness of the proposed controller. (hindawi.com)
  • The robot is developed to achieve a bipedal walk, a quadruped walk and a brachiation, mimicking locomotion ways of a gorilla. (upenn.edu)
  • The simulation results show that the quadruped robot can perform periodic rolling locomotion with the proposed energy-based controller. (hindawi.com)
  • The effectiveness of the proposed controller is verified through a numerical simulation of its rolling locomotion. (hindawi.com)
  • Participants judged the trajectories of moving objects during simulated locomotion, during real locomotion, and while stationary in Experiment 1 and in textured and untextured environments in Experiment 2. (rpi.edu)
  • It implies a mental construction of the environment that surrounds us that must be carried out in a fast and precise way, since this information is crucial to be able to correctly interact with the environment and the objects in it. (bvsalud.org)
  • As an example, a sphericon formation comprising of two orthogonally placed circular arcs with conincident center illustrates smooth locomotion along a line (one degree of freedom). (frontiersin.org)
  • Texas State University: …Research and Data Center, the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, the Shell Center for Polymer Science and Technology, and the Center for the Study of the Southwest. (britannica.com)