12 Apr 2022
Toyota Autonomous Drifting Car

Toyota Autonomous Drifting Car

Automation, Robot Categories 👉🏻
Toyota Research Institute is developing autonomous drifting cars that guarantee active safety in extreme situations to prevent crashes, giving a normal driver the skills of a professional driver when faced with a dangerous situation while driving. The research team is developing algorithms that will allow the vehicle to cope with difficult situations like crashes autonomously. Autonomous Drifting Car. Image credit: Toyota Research Institute Expert drivers can drift a car safely through a turn on slippery roads, and the autonomous drift car from Toyota is equipped with this capability to detect obstacles and autonomously maneuver around them.  The control system uses…
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12 Jan 2022
John Deere’s Fully Autonomous Tractor for Large-scale Production

John Deere’s Fully Autonomous Tractor for Large-scale Production

Automation, Robot Categories 👉🏻
John Deere's new autonomous tractor is all the fast-growing population needs for large-scale production. The tractor can do the job autonomously while the farmer is doing other tasks, and they can monitor its status through an app on their mobile phone. Image credit: John Deere Key features: GPS guidance systemsix pairs of stereo cameras for 360-deg visual perceptionimages are processed through a deep neural network for obstacle detection This tractor will be available to all farmers in late 2022! Watch a short video of this below: More information: https://ces2022.deere.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/john-deere/ If you enjoyed this post, please consider contributing to help us…
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04 Dec 2021
A Wheeled-Quadruped Robot for Logistics and Delivery Applications

A Wheeled-Quadruped Robot for Logistics and Delivery Applications

Quadrupeds/Hexapods, Robot Categories 👉🏻
A team of six people from the Robotic Systems Lab of ETH Zurich developed Swiss-Mile, a wheeled-quadruped robot for autonomous delivery and logistics. image credit: the Robotic Systems Lab of ETH Zurich and Swiss-Mile The AI-powered quadruped can act like a car, a legged robot, and a humanoid robot, all in one robot for applications in delivery and logistics. Watch the robot in action in the following video: Key features: locomotion skills are performed using reinforcement learningdriving speed of up to 6.2 m/s (22.32 km/h or 13.87 miles/h)can stand up on two legs More information: https://rsl.ethz.ch/https://www.swiss-mile.com/ If you enjoyed this…
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05 Aug 2021
Other Explicit Representation for the Orientation in Robotics: Roll-Pitch-Yaw Angles

Other Explicit Representation for the Orientation in Robotics: Roll-Pitch-Yaw Angles

Fundamentals of Robot Motions, Fundamentals of Robotics 👉🏻
In the previous lesson, we learned about Euler Angles Representation which is one of the ways to explicitly represent an orientation. This lesson will continue with explicit ways to represent the orientation, and we will learn about Roll-Pitch-Yaw Angles. This lesson is part of the series of lessons on foundations necessary to express robot motions. For the full comprehension of the Fundamentals of Robot Motions and the necessary tools to represent the configurations, velocities, and forces causing the motion, please read the following lessons (note that more lessons will be added in the future): https://www.mecharithm.com/category/fundamentals-of-robotics/fundamentals-of-robot-motions/ Also, reading some lessons from the…
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