'Cheetah' robot's first run
'Cheetah' robot's first run
A “cheetah” robot designed at MIT may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency: In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that it wastes very little energy as it trots continuously for up to an hour and a half.
Missy Cummings at TEDMED
Missy Cummings at TEDMED
MIT Professor—and former Navy fighter pilot—Missy Cummings gives a talk at TEDMED 2012.
McAfee: Autonomous Cars - Near-Term Vision
McAfee: Autonomous Cars - Near-Term Vision
Andrew McAfeePrincipal Research Scientist, Center for Digital BusinessMIT Sloan School of Management
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
This video shows a simulation of a vehicle driving on two types of off-road surfaces. One vehicle is on a flat, sloped surface, and the other vehicle is on a rough, sloped surface. It can be seen that the roughness causes one vehicle to rollover. Read more at the ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to Cart-Pole Stabilization
This video contains animations of the two simulation results described in a conference paper presented at ICRA 2010. The results show tip-up of a vehicle on a surface with two different friction coefficients. In the first simulation, the surface friction coefficient is ...
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors
Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
Chryssostomidis: Advances in AUV Development
Chryssostomidis: Advances in AUV Development
Chryssostomos ChryssostomidisDoherty Professor of Ocean Science and EngineeringProfessor of Mechanical and Ocean EngineeringRead more: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=17
Chryssostomidis: AUV Lab - Research Overview
Chryssostomidis: AUV Lab - Research Overview
Chryssostomos ChryssostomidisDoherty Professor of Ocean Science and EngineeringProfessor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Read more: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=17
Chryssostomidis: AUV Research - Importance of Collaboration
Chryssostomidis: AUV Research - Importance of Collaboration
Chryssostomos ChryssostomidisDoherty Professor of Ocean Science and EngineeringProfessor of Mechanical and Ocean EngineeringRead more: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=17
Chryssostomidis: AUVs - Hurdles to Autonomy
Chryssostomidis: AUVs - Hurdles to Autonomy
Chryssostomos ChryssostomidisDoherty Professor of Ocean Science and EngineeringProfessor of Mechanical and Ocean EngineeringRead more: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=17
Chryssostomidis: AUVs and Off-Shore Oil Wells
Chryssostomidis: AUVs and Off-Shore Oil Wells
Chryssostomos ChryssostomidisDoherty Professor of Ocean Science and EngineeringProfessor of Mechanical and Ocean EngineeringRead more: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=17
Knife-edge maneuvers for autonomous aircraft
Fast and Accurate Knife-Edge Maneuvers for Autonomous Aircraft
Researchers in MIT's Robot Locomotion Group have built a computer-controlled aircraft that flies accurately enough to navigate safely through a gap smaller than its wingspan.
Autonomous ship hull inspection
Autonomous Ship Hull Inspection: 3-D Coverage Planning with the HAUV
Work by the Hover Group at MIT on autonomous ship hull inspection.
Shared Human-Machine Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle ...
Shared Human-Machine Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)
Read more about the Robotic Mobility Group at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mechanical-engineers-develop-intelligent-car-co-pilot-0713.htmlAnd on the Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
An "intelligent co-pilot" for cars
MIT researchers develop an "intelligent co-pilot" for cars
A new semiautonomous driver system can take the wheel to keep drivers safe.
Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
Aircraft-carrier crew use standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions, researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable them to follow these gestures.
Tinycopter!
Tinycopter!
Tinycopter is a tiny quadrotor born of the wreckage of the giant thrust-vectoring EDF quadrotor. Only real quadrotor people can fly it, apparently.
Unmanned hazard avoidance
Semi-Autonomous Hazard Avoidance for Unmanned Ground Vehicle
This video demonstrates obstacle semi-autonomous obstacle avoidance and stability control of an unmanned ground vehicle.