Walker (BEAM)
In BEAM robotics, a walker is a walking machine that has a driven mode of locomotion by intermittent ground-contacting legs. They usually possess 1 to 12 (generally, three or less) motors. "Muscle wired" walkers utilizes Nitinol (nickel - titanium alloy) for its actuators.
BEAM walking robots contain Nv networks, which consist of NV neurons each of which is a very simple oscillator setup. The most common form of BEAM walker is the master slave Bicore, which uses two suspended Bicore arrangements.
A BEAM walker does not use a processor, nor is it programmed in any way—it walks and responds to terrain via resistive input from its motors. This is an extremely clever method for creating locomotion.
Variations
- unimotor : Driven mode of locomotion via one motor.
- bimotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 2 motors.
- trimotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 3 motors.
- quadramotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 4 motors.
- pentamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 5 motors.
- hexamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 6 motors.
- septuamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 7 motors.
- octamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 8 motors.
- ennamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 9 motors.
- dekamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 10 motors.
- undecmotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 11 motors.
- dodecamotor : Driven mode of locomotion via 12 motors.
- Muscle wired : Utilizes Nitinol (nickel - titanium alloy) for its actuators.
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