SpinyBot pages Contents: Links and News Publications Movies Spinybot II Toe Compliance

Spinybot on the 2nd floor of the Cubberly Education Bldg.

Most of the SpinyBot technology is now transferred to the RisePlatform. See the RiSEatSWRIapril06 page for some results. The ICRA 2006 paper listed below provides some details on how the spines were adapted.

• June 2009: A new adaptation of the technology is perching UAVs.

Links and News

• 19 May 2006: See WhatsNew page for Spinybot at IEEE ICRA 06 and in Popular Mechanics
• 1 May 2006: SpinyBot makes a cameo appearance on DiscoveryChannel.ca Dailey Planet.
• 5 August 2005: Spinybot on Discovery Channel News
• 28 July 2005: Spinybot on Channel 7 news
• SpinybotII collection in Docushare -- Papers, movies, refs. Some folders are password protected.

Publications

(See the RisePublications page for a complete list of publications.)

• Spinybot spine scaling is covered in the IJRR 2006 paper. For some background on the spine failure analysis, see: SpineAsperityContactModel
  • ijrr2006.pdf preprint of IJRR paper

• Asbeck, A.T., Kim, S., McClung? , A., Parness, A., and Cutkosky, M.R., Climbing Walls with Microspines," , IEEE ICRA 2006, Orlando, Fla. -- adapting microspines to the RisePlatform
  • ICRA 2006 poster (PDF): poster to accompany video presented at IEEE ICRA06

• Kim, S., Asbeck, A., Provancher, W., and Cutkosky, M.R., %u201CSpinybotII: Climbing Hard Walls with Compliant Microspines,%u201D presented at IEEE ICAR, Seattle, WA, July, 18-20, 2005.
• Asbeck, A., Kim, S., Provancher, W.R., Cutkosky, M.R. and Lanzetta, M., %u201CScaling Hard Surfaces With Microspine Arrays,%u201D Robotics: Science and Systems, MIT, June 8-10, 2005.

Movies

• Nov. 22004 Spinybot movies
• Also see VideosAndMedia

Lab server: movies in: //Chewie/users/RiSE/Movies/

Some of them have .qt extensions but only work on PCs if you change the extension to .avi.

-- MarkCutkosky - 27 Nov 2004

Spinybot II Toe Compliance

• We have been investigating, experimentally, the compliance of Spinybot toes. Attached photos below of Sal's work in progress.
• SpinyBotII toe compliance FEA

-- WillP? - 05 Jan 2005

• The results of the Spinybot II Toe compliance tests are here:
• SpinyBotII Toe Compliance Details

-- SalomonTrujillo - 03 Mar 2005

Sal gets ready to test toe compliance