Biomimetics Retreat

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Biomimetics Retreat

• Welcome
• Food - Jing-Jing or Quiznos
• Background - initial project goals
• Achievements to date
• Milestones
• ICRA (September?)
• MURI meeting (August?)
• Schedules
• Lunch (at Foothills park)
• Broad goals
• Define
• Detail
• Action items
• Equipment

• Broad goals
• MEMS?
• Adaptation
• anything, load, terrain, etc
• sensing
• Better understanding of locomotion
• extend ASME 2000 (timed systems) work
• investigate extension time phenomenon, impulses,
  rough terrain
• prove need static eq. point
• design mapping
• Next generation robot
• self-contained
• smaller, faster, better
• sensors
• terrain, turning behavior
• modelable
• University integration
• Harvard and Johns Hopkins (premeeting?)
• Kazerooni

June 5, 2000
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