So far, I have been able to create functional printable robots. However, the printable robots are still tethered to off-board power, which limits their potential. Recently, I am working on designing autonomous robots by integrating printed battery into our printable manufacturing paradigm. For the n...
At first, I started with the okvis project to build my own BOEM SLAM. After spending several weeks understanding what is going on in that well-established project, I realized that there is not way to develop and to test on that project. What I need is to build a project with smaller scale that I can...
Project High-Level View I propose the following as the high level view for designing foldable robots. ICRA Project Goal For the next two months, I will be focusing on designing structural elements, which is a major component in foldable robotic systems. I will build analysis design toolbox t...
This week I conducted test of sticking 3D printed gondola to the envelope which is the mylar balloon. The material of the gondola is PLA and the material of the balloon is mylar. The test assumes that the interacting surface of gondola is plane, however, the surface on the balloon is not always...
For testing this week, I used the Air Swimmer blimp and made different modifications to it. My end goal was to determine whether propellers or using a flapping motion was a more effective way of providing thrust for our balloon. First, I did some basic flight tests to see how well it moved around...
The past few days, I have worked on implementing a pre-built flapping technology on helium balloons of different shapes and sizes running tests with them. Although the experiment did not go as planned (for reasons I will discuss later), I will discuss what did occur as I ran my first iteration of th...
Finished the experiment of using bluetooth and wifi to remotely control two motors. Bluetooth + cellphone app: Wifi + cellphone app:
Wenzhong and I have been working on the paper named Computational Design and Fabrication of Corrugated Mechanisms from Behavioral Specifications during the past week. We have submitted the paper and fingers crossed. Special thanks to Wenzhong for his suggestions and helps. Also thanks everyone...
Experience: learned about how to debug a logical error in coding with a scientific methodology, which could be a quite valuable lesson for future debugging. 1. Bug come up The logic bug (in this example) appears when the frontend of Unity tried to parse a stl file from backend compiler, transfo...
There are several existing visual-inertial SLAM implementations. Among all, I pick okvis as our development basis. However, the okvis project is too well-written with sophisticated implementation. There are also some building problem. In summary, it is pretty hard for us to develop, especially fro...