Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States have created a cheetah robot that can
The developers installed in the robot, which receivedthe name "mini-cheetah", a new intelligent system that allows him to jump over crevices and similar obstacles. This is the main value of the development.
According to the lead author of the research,MIT computer science professor Gabriel Margolis, the system relies on a video sensor that detects potential obstacles, such as crevices and holes and any other plane obstacles in real time, and translates them into instructions on how the cheetah should respond.
Robot smart computer vision systemestimates the depth of the approaching terrain by transmitting data to a neural network that provides a target trajectory to a low-level controller that controls all 12 joints of the cheetah robot.
“The hierarchy, including the use of thisa low-level controller, allows us to restrict the robot's behavior to make it more obedient. With this low-level controller, we use well-defined models that we can impose constraints on, which is usually not possible in learning networks, ”said Margolis.
Source: Futurism