Industrial Automation, Robots and Unmanned Vehicles General Newsletter - Apr 2014

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing The Future of Manufacturing
03/27/14, Len Calderone for, RoboticsTomorrow
The next chapter in the industrial revolution is 3D printing, delivering a huge impact on additive manufacturing. It will not only create thousands of new jobs, but it will create many new businesses.

Drones in the Water
03/27/14, Matt Rendall, Clearpath Robotics
Essentially, we’re creating drones for water that produce mapping capabilities; it’s somewhat similar to air drones (i.e.: fixed wing UAVs) that map from the sky, but we’re mapping from the water.

International Paper Saves Labor Costs, Improves Reliability, Quality and Work Flow
03/27/14, Contributed by, Motion Controls Robotics Inc.
Downtime near zero vs. extended downtime of former gantry system.

Beta Testing Dynamixel XL-320 Servos
03/27/14, Reviewed by, Robot Campus
Dynamixel XL-320 is a digital servo (in this case, featuring a 8-bit STM8 controller).

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

From John Goatstream's Vimeo Videos:

We present a muscle-based control method for simulated bipeds in which both the muscle routing and control parameters are optimized. This yields a generic locomotion control method that supports a variety of bipedal creatures. All actuation forces are the result of 3D simulated muscles, and a model of neural delay is included for all feedback paths. As a result, our controllers generate torque patterns that incorporate biomechanical constraints. The synthesized controllers find different gaits based on target speed, can cope with uneven terrain and external perturbations, and can steer to target directions... (full paper) (follow up videos)

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