NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:34 pm
I am pleased to announce the open source release of the NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit (NTRT), which uses Bullet 2.82 for physics.
Tensegrity Robots are a biologically inspired approach to building robots based on the tension networks of tensegrity structures, which have no rigid connections between elements. The NTRT was created to enable the rapid co-exploration of structures and controls in a physics based simulation environment.
Videos of our results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0AlIwEgSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyt7B7-OebI
Feedback is welcome! This is our first beta release, so the library will be maturing significantly over the next few months. Our development roadmap and source code are available on Github
Brian
Tensegrity Robots are a biologically inspired approach to building robots based on the tension networks of tensegrity structures, which have no rigid connections between elements. The NTRT was created to enable the rapid co-exploration of structures and controls in a physics based simulation environment.
Videos of our results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0AlIwEgSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyt7B7-OebI
Feedback is welcome! This is our first beta release, so the library will be maturing significantly over the next few months. Our development roadmap and source code are available on Github
Brian