

And Open Robotics just released ROS 2 Dashing Diademata for all of us to use. This is where tools like the Robot Operating System (ROS) come in, so we don’t have to keep reinventing these same wheels. It won’t be long before diagnostic monitoring and logging comes in handy, or the desire to encapsulate feature areas and orchestrate how they work together.
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But as a robot’s autonomy increases, its corresponding software gets complicated very quickly. Continue reading “Transforming Drone Can Be A Square Or A Dragon” → Posted in drone hacks, Robots Hacks Tagged drone, electric ducted fan, modular robot, shapeshiftĪ simple robot that performs line-following or obstacle avoidance can fit all of its logic inside a single Arduino sketch. The 2016 Hackaday Grand Prize winner DTTO is a perfect example of this, although it did lack the ability to fly. The idea of shape shifting robots has been around for a while, and can become even more interesting when the different segment can detach and reattach themselves to become modular robots. The small diameter of the propellers, and all the added components would be a severe limiting factor in terms of lifting capacity and flight time, but the concept is to definitely interesting.
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The full research paper is unfortunately behind a paywall. When a small gap is encountered, as demonstrated in the video after the break, the segments rearrange into a dragon-like shape, that can pass through a gap in any plane.Įach segment has its own power source and controller, and the control software required to make everything work together is rather complex. For normal flight the segments would be arranged in the square shape, with minimal movement between the segments. A pair of ducted fan motors are attached to the middle of each segment with a 2-DOF gimbal that allows it to direct thrust in any direction relative to the segment. The drone consists of four segments, with a 2-DOF actuated joint between each segment. The drone is called DRAGON, which is somehow an acronym for the tongue twisting description “ Dual-Rotor Embedded Multilink Robot with the Ability of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Aerial Transformation“. Researchers at the University of Tokyo got around this problem by using an articulating structure for the drone frame, allowing the drone to transform from a large square to a narrow, elongated form to fit through smaller gaps. But in other scenes, we see normal street traffic, open bodegas, routine commerce-when I suspect that, in fact, there’d be rioting everywhere.When flying drones in and around structures, the size of the drone is generally limited by the openings you want to fit through. We do catch a glimpse of the disorder in one scene, where a woman, after waiting three days for an appointment, tells a banker that she’s paid off her mortgage and presents the papers to prove it but the banker can’t get into the computer and doesn’t trust the paperwork because, so she says, a lot of counterfeit documents are out there. The liberation of every indebted citizen isn’t so plausible.įinally, if there really was a firm as monolithic as E Corp., and if hackers really did freeze its data, the chaos would be a lot wilder. Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, or the others. Even if hackers jammed or erased Bank of America’s data (and its backup files), they wouldn’t have touched the data at J.P. The cyber-shutdown of a very large bank would send devastating shockwaves across the entire financial system (think Lehman Brothers in 2008), but it wouldn’t mean the shutdown of all banks or all bank transactions. One other feature of the American economy: compared with other industrialized nations, it’s decentralized. It’s so easy for Elliot (and for the many hackers in real life) and so shocking to his victims when they realize how wide-open they’ve left themselves.
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The techniques he uses to crack their passwords or otherwise gain access to their files are real, time-tested tools. In the early part of Season 1, before Elliot joins (or realizes that his schizoid self is leading) the revolution, he hacks his few friends, his boss, and his shrink, as well as a few miscreants (a child pornographer, a drug dealer, and his shrink’s philandering boyfriend) whom he blackmails or turns in to the authorities. When the characters type commands and codes on their laptops, what we see on their monitors is the real deal: no post-production green-screen gibberish here.


Robot-showrunner Sam Esmail and his crew of consultants-get these things, small and large, right. The viewers who know the field roll their eyes in derision those who don’t still sense that something’s off.

Most shows that deal with technology lose their footing when they try to go deep or get detailed.
