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Robots in Scansorial Environments (RiSE) Head: Ralph Hollis Contact: Alfred Rizzi (arizzi@bostondynamics.com) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated lab/group: Microdynamic Systems Laboratory For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - August 2005.

Project Description

The goal of the RiSE project is to create a bioinspired climbing robot with the unique ability to walk on land and climb on vertical surfaces. Active research studies novel robot kinematics, precision-manufactured compliant feet and appendages, and advanced robot behaviors. This project is funded by the DARPA Biodynotics Program.

Working closely with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley (link 2), Lewis & Clark University, and Boston Dynamics Inc., our team at Carnegie Mellon is focused on developing behaviors to autonomously walk and climb on multiple surfaces, adapting gaits based upon sensory information and reacting to surfaces changes and obstacles.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Galen Clark Haynes	PhD Student, RI	gch@cs.cmu.edu
	Ralph Hollis	Research Professor	rhollis@cs.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Gait Regulation and Feedback on a Robotic Climbing Hexapod
  G. Haynes and A. Rizzi
  Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, August, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1359 KB] copyrighted

• Gaits and Gait Transitions for Legged Robots
  G. Haynes and A. Rizzi
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '06), May, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [459 KB] copyrighted