Category: Project Updates
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The Ascento Roll-Out-Video!
Last Tuesday we could show everyone what we achieved over the past two semesters. The Roll-Out was both exciting and emotional. Thanks to everyone who showed up at our booth at ETH. We had a great time with you! For everyone else, here are the highlights of the past 9 months compressed to 4 minutes of…
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Ascento at WORLD.MINDS 2018
Look how beautiful Tina looks on the stage of the 12th WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium! With more than 300 scientists, entrepreneurs, professors and politicians it was certainly not the time to make mistakes! But what about WORLD.MINDS? It is an invitation-only community of 1000 individuals who have made proven contributions in science, the arts, business and government.…
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Our final robot!
After Romy… Sara… we’re now assembling our third iteration of our jumping robot. We call her Tina! The parts are still made out of 3D printed PA12, but now dyed in black and red. Now with a new spring-concept for an efficient jump and a complete redesign to achieve higher strength and a more compact…
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Sara is jumping…
… in the simulation! The jump controller framework is now set up. We can tune all our controllers in the simulation, prior to risking any damage to the real system. And it seems quite promising…:
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Sara is alive!
Countless hours were spent on designing and tuning the drive controller to achieve robust system behaviour. This robustness is needed for stable landing on a narrow step after a jump. Having a stable robot will make the jumping process much easier.  (Sara is the name of our second prototype). There’s more to come soon!
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See you next year!
The control team made a dynamic model of our system to be able to predict the systemÔÇÖs dynamics while driving and will next implement the full dynamic model needed for jumping. The control algorithms for stabilising, driving and curve leaning have also been made and tested in our simulation and as well as partially tested…
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Second Prototype
Half time is over and our team has advanced with great strides towards jumping stairs. Although both feet are still on the ground, expect big jumps in the next couple of months. From a construction side of view we have just finished assembling our second completely re-thought prototype using state of the art computer optimisation…
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Wohoo it’s driving
Finally: we have assembled our first prototype and implemented a first iteration of control algorithms: It is now able to balance and drive around! Check out this video for a short demo: Yet we are still waiting for various electrical components and motors, until we can reach our goal and jump up stairs. This is…
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First prototype
Five weeks have passed and our first Prototype is starting to shape up. Last week we 3D printed the body and leg mechanism, now itÔÇÿs time to assemble those parts. We are still waiting for some motors, but as soon as we get them we should be able to balance and jump!
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Concept: found!
Two weeks in and already a lot of progress has been made. After a lot of long and intensive discussions we have defined our concept of how to maneuvre in indoor environments. The main keyword is jumping: Our vision is to create a segway-like robot balancing and driving around on two wheels. Yet equipped with…