Swarm Stewart Platform(SSP)

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[@FainTMako]

I love the glorious music playing as the robot swarm delivers the man his cup of coffee. Its really the full circle of life.

[@KC9UDX]

More like the fractional ellipse of life

[@Jandodev]

This is so cool it makes me imagine this being massive machines moving over mountains!

[@Dr.Kraig_Ren]

We don't have Materials that won't break under their own weight at such lengths

[@ArunUdai]

Wow, you have taken it to a next level. Hat's of to your innovation.

[@cursed_cats5710]

"How many DOFs do you want?" "Yes" Thus the Swarm Stewart Platform was born

[@conorstewart2214]

It would be interesting to see just how many degrees of freedom it can achieve like this and what the range of motion would be, it may be less than an actual Stewart platform.

[@danielfearn6076]

@@conorstewart2214 You can calculate the degrees of freedom. Each little robot can drive in x y directions and rotate, that's 3 per robot, so 18 DOFs total. A stewart platform has 6, so you have 12 redundant DOFs with this setup

[@gmakerc1]

They've finally done it! They made a table that can kinda move over stuff.

[@conorstewart2214]

Unfortunately it still uses wheels, a table with controllable legs would be even better.

[@error.418]

@@conorstewart2214 yeah, so unfortunate that they started with something reasonable as a first step...

[@dgpreston5593]

Kudos. That is truly unique and clever.

[@pondboggen]

nicely done! compacting little bit of "awesome" in different robotic parts into one for a motion platform. i can not think of any actual real world usage such as outdoors in construction, to manufacturing, to medical. but more of a high school / collage project to show off your skills. about only thing i can think of, is the "extremely long" items that need to be moved from assembly point, to final construction site, such as long wind mill blades, long wind mill base towers, etc... and needing support evenly across multiple degrees of freedom as the item traverse roads, and getting through uneven terrain. a challenge, move the batteries, electronics, pretty much everything except (wheels, wheel motors, minimal frame, sensors) from ground to the the platform. what is on the ground is going to get trashed, and if breaks down, you are not going to go oh... let it move on its own to a truck to be hauled off to be repaired on its own power. (it poohed out), it is not moving any place. get a central power, central electronics, central wireless connection point then see what happens. extra = handling wire harnesses, wire quick disconnects, 3 wheel frame disconnects. extra = moving the lower wheels to reduce diameter they need to move to adjust the platform. extra = toss into a simulator (construction, farm, etc..., many games / simulators out there), see if you can move on uneven terrain. dig some holes / make hills, make side culverts of road in backyard and see if you can drive it around. other words mini train sets = mini obstacle course for you, toss some dirt on some concrete if need be, perhaps card board, construction paper, etc... with some wood shims used to make supports for ramps and stuff for uneven terrain to drive over.

[@weirdsciencetv4999]

This is super cool!!

[@nikunjparmar7267]

Amazing demonstration of control system and CS concepts altogether.!!!

[@Cherem777]

BRAVO!

[@roopi67]

Impressive, but if they can keep a ball bouncing on it that will be next level

[@conorstewart2214]

This is a very interesting project. How did you coordinate the robot movement? Is it just through dead reckoning or does it have a way to tell where it is in relation to the swarm? Is there a main “brain” of the swarm, like a separate computer or is everything done on the robots themselves? The top looks like it might just be a flat sheet, you could add a sensor unit to the underside of the top to allow it to tell its angle for some feedback and to allow it to remain stable even on smooth but uneven surfaces or non level surfaces, like ramps. Does the system achieve the full range of motion that a Stewart platform provides or is it more limited?

[@The101Superman]

makes video about steward platform, shows 2 axis movement

[@YueBeifong]

3 Axis to be fair

[@The101Superman]

@@YueBeifong goes forward and up and down, am I missing something?

[@YueBeifong]

@@The101Superman 0:13 It Goes Sideways as well :D

[@MetalLobo86]

How do you measure precise distance between them ?

[@T.Leplat]

I wonder why 6? 3 of them should be enough to get 6 DOF.

[@Rewers88]

Tenser’s floating disk

[@user-px3mb9qp8g]

Cool~~

[@jacks19822]

great, we could use it on indoor mobile furniture

[@chicongnguyen6205]

Các bạn giỏi quá.

[@amlinambrose9412]

❤

[@sijokjjose1]

👍👍

[@jawadmehmoodbutt4449]

As a robotics researcher, I seem this thing interesting in academics. However, for practical impact a single mobile robot with a steward platform will be more helpful and stable.

[@balua9]

100% agree - but thats not the point. As a robotics researcher you should see the point was the ability to have sufficient coordination between a team of robots to control a steward platform. As a robotics researcher, that level of coordination is very practical for a variety of applications that a single robot cannot solve.

[@handsofrhythm3415]

Until those robots are the size of Mac trucks and that table represents a pre assembled imported bridge moving from a port through a city to a ravine. Guess it's about seeing the potential......

[@conorstewart2214]

Practical uses come later, we should be trying lots of ideas, even just to give students a challenge and to teach them the skills needed to design complex robots and to coordinate multiple robots.

[@myperspective5091]

👍🏆👍

[@pradeepsangishetty3781]

How come these videos have less views😧

[@jonp8015]

I see how this can be done with only 6 motors instead of 18.

[@zrebbesh]

Get it accurate within a tenth of a millimeter and it'll be useful.

[@boycefenn]

easy, go from 6 robots to 1

[@Greenalien_]

I’ve said it a million times on other videos of the same concept. SO PORTAL PANELS HUH?!

[@deoarlo]

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[@shlomihacohen1528]

אוניברסיטת אריאל

[@luzm7918]

不會執政，只會搞街頭運動。 選輸了也不認，硬拗。