Tag: robot
Robot Birds: Designing Micro Air Vehicles
From his upturned palm, Ryan Carr launches then expertly flies what appears to be a remote-controlled bird. Later, the aeronautical engineer uses special equipment to examine the machine’s flight characteristics. scientist Joseph McDermott works at the Air Force Research Lab in Dayton, Ohio, with materials so tiny the width of a human hair is huge by comparison. Welcome to the world of micro air vehicles (MAVs) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Here hobby-store aircraft are helping scientists design a futuristic line of miniature flying spy vehicles. We take the technology that we have and we try to design something that does the same thing as a hummingbird or dragonfly does,” explains Carr.
How to build a Pinchbot Landingbot
Support NNN and buy a Pinchbot from our online store: www.bricklink.com If you build your own Landingbot, be sure to upload a video response so I can check it out. I put a queue of upcoming “How To Build” videos on my channel page. Check out what to look for next. The landingbot shows up briefly in these two episodes: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Initial concept build: www.flickr.com Final Design www.flickr.com www.facebook.com
Encog 3D Neural Pilot vs. Human with HTML5 and WebGL via X3DOM
This is a demo for a prototypical distributed cloud computing architecture using the Encog Neural Network Framework from Jeff Heaton, HTML5, jQuery, Apache Tomcat, WebGL via X3DOM. As result no browser plugins are needed to run this interactive 3D Internet application. A human player (which was me) played against the unsupervised trained neural net which uses as backend the lunar lander sample network from Jeff Heaton’s Book on Encog. Part of the presentation: “The Megatrend after cloud computing – how to survive the organic computing age” shown on November 15th 2011 at the DOAG Conference www.doag.org , Nuremberg, and on November 22nd 2011 at the www.CloudConf.de in Munich, Germany. Provided by Skilltower Institute Labs www.skilltower.de