Emergence - Evodyne Robotics Research Lab Update
- evodyneacademy
- 7 days ago
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Updated: 6 days ago
The lab has been hard at work over the last year!
Thanks to all the work done so far, we now have the beginning of what looks like a humanoid robot. This allows us to test kinematics and most importantly, human-robot communication and interaction.
Evodroid Visualizer and Person Perception
The visualizer provides a real-time 3D view of the robot's current status of perception and identification of objects, persons, fiduciary markers, and surfaces.
One of the most important challenges we have made progress on is "person" integration. How does the robot know this detected face belongs to the same person as that hand, or that foot, and so on? By using AI to combine detected faces, movement tracking across time, and pose detection, the system figures out in real-time who it is talking to, and what they are currently doing. For example, if three known people are standing in front of the robot, and one person reaches out to shake hands, how does the robot know which named person is making that gesture?
EvoDrive Actuator and Motor Controller
The EvoRaptor Mini Biped Robot project is moving along fast. We are close to a completed robot and beginning testing of the balancing algorithm by extracting the MPC policy from the successful simulation in Deepmind's Mujoco MJPC framework, and using it on the real robot.
EvoDriver Motor Controller
Version 1 of the PCB was still using out-sourced half bridge chips for convenience. Version 2will now have our own design directly using power MOSFETs and gate drivers, and be fully integrated, making for a much smaller (and cheaper) final PCB.
Evodroid Wrist using a Spherical Parallel Manipulator Joint
This is a uniquely, complex mechanism which creates 3 degrees of freedom, all coinciding at a single point, perfect for acting as the endpoint of a humanoid wrist.
Evodroid Hand
Version 0.1 of the hand used servos. Version 1 will use our own designed actuators and encoders to create a fully compliant mechanism without requiring springs or sensors.
EvoRaptor Foot Design
Though small, the mini-biped will function better with a compliant foot. This exercise will also be greatly educational while designing the foot for the larger Evodroid robot.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Raghav Gupta
Founder & CEO | Evodyne Robotics
To be a part of this team, apply now to join the Emergence Track in the Fall.
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