Weaver: Hexapod robot for autonomous navigation on unstructured terrain

M Bjelonic, N Kottege, T Homberger… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Legged robots are an efficient alternative for navigation in challenging terrain. In this paper
we describe Weaver, a six‐legged robot that is designed to perform autonomous navigation …

Environmental adaptation of robot morphology and control through real-world evolution

TF Nygaard, CP Martin, D Howard, J Torresen… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Robots operating in the real world will experience a range of different environments and
tasks. It is essential for the robot to have the ability to adapt to its surroundings to work …

Semi-supervised gated recurrent neural networks for robotic terrain classification

A Ahmadi, T Nygaard, N Kottege… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Legged robots are popular candidates for missions in challenging terrains due to their
versatile locomotion strategies. Terrain classification is a key enabling technology for …

Autonomous navigation of hexapod robots with vision-based controller adaptation

M Bjelonic, T Homberger, N Kottege… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces a novel hybrid control architecture for a hexapod platform (Weaver),
making it capable of autonomously navigating in uneven terrain. The main contribution …

OpenSHC: A versatile multilegged robot controller

B Tam, F Talbot, R Steindl, A Elfes, N Kottege - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilegged robots have the ability to perform stable locomotion on relatively rough terrain.
However, the complexity of legged robots over wheeled or tracked robots make them difficult …

[PDF][PDF] Augmented telepresence for remote inspection with legged robots

B Tam, N Kottege, B Kusy - The Australasian Conference on …, 2017 - navinda.kottege.net
In many applications, humans remotely control a robot through teleoperation, to augment its
capabilities with the cognitive skills of humans. The arrival of mainstream head mounted …