Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog 20

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XDog is a small electric quadruped designed and built by Xing Wang, a graduate student at Shanghai University, with support from his adviser Jia Wenchuan. The robot has 12 motors (each leg has 3 DoF), and uses force sensors on each foot, IMU, and joint-angle sensors for control. Wang says XDog “has just been born,” and he’s still working on its walking gait (top speed is currently about 0.6 m/s) and hopes to add capabilities like running and jumping. And if you noticed all the Boston Dynamics references in the video, yes, Wang is a fan:
Marc Raibert from Boston Dynamics is my idol,” he says. “Their papers helped me to design XDog.” He added: “But Boston Dynamics quadruped robots are large and expensive, and I want to use [a different design] to make quadruped robots simpler and smaller, so that they can help ordinary people with things like carrying objects or as companions.”

Who invented XDog?
How many Degrees of Freedom does each leg have?

8 comments:

  1. 1. Xing Wang
    2. 3 DoF
    -Katelyn

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  2. 1.Xing Wang
    2.3 DoF
    Brady Zheng

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  3. Xing Wang/ Shanghai University, 3 DOF. Alex Haston

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  4. Chris VanYe
    1. Xing Wang
    2. 3 DoF

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  5. Xing Wang
    3 DoF
    Nick Muhleman

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  6. Xing wang invented XDOG, 3 degrees of freedom.
    Garrett Coffin

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  7. Xing Wang
    3 DoF

    -Wyatt Coffin

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  8. 1. Xing Wang
    2. 3 degrees of freedom for each leg.
    -Joe Haj

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