MA for my new friend

[Fuller]

Discus:
Should I encourage him to do Park or just have him carry my skis to the lift?

 

[Jilly]

Definitely Park! That is so neat.

 

[Josh Matta]

What kind of PID loops are you running on its balance axis?

 

[mdf]

I don't think you can do that with PID controls. You need the big hammer of H2 or H-inf methods. Maybe even a non-linear model-reference adaptive controller.

In any case, it is very impressive.

 

[mdf]

Ok, this is even more impressive, at least to me!

 

[James]

This is what we're in for.

 

[Erik Timmerman]

Skynet!

 

[mdf]

I haven't paid attention to robotics for about ten years, and it is scary how much progress has been made.
But forgetting that whole "making humanity obsolete" problem, it is very cool. I bet you could bolt on ordinary skis and add a little auxilliary programming and have that guy winning races in short order!

 

[James]

I gave a lesson to two women engineers. One worked for Lockheed on stuff she described as "West World" like on robotic assistants.
One of them came up with a phrase of "managing" for I forget what but we used it for everything. So they were "managing" their line, the terrain, the surrounding moving people etc. They really liked it.

 

[David Chaus]

I like the part where he pushed the robot over and it didn't complain. Usually my students complain when I push them over.

 

[Erik Timmerman]

I like the part where he pushed the robot over and it didn't complain. Usually my students complain when I push them over.

Sometimes he does complain.

 

[James]

I like the part where he pushed the robot over and it didn't complain. Usually my students complain when I push them over.

After the CS III module you'll learn to push them over without being known as the cause.

 

[slowrider]

 

[razie]

Did he ever return or is he on the loose?

Ok, this is even more impressive, at least to me!

 

[Mike King]

So, inclination but no angulation...

 

[Erik Timmerman]

So, inclination but no angulation...

It seems to have the ability to turn it's "femur", so I assume you could program in angulation.