CSCE 483: Computer System Design: Videos for Project Inspiration

Spherical Robot/Rolling Robot

• NASA TumbleWeed Rover
• Rotundus GroundBot
• Spherical Mechanisms
• Hoberman Expanding Sphere

Autonomous Kites

• Autonomous kites as renewable energy sources
• Kite turbine: Energy From Thin Air
• Kite power sail
• Kite photography example
• Fast and highly manoeuvrable Kite (Steering and control with multiple lines)
• Afgan Kites (Steering and control via a single line)
• Kite Combat (Steering and control via a single line)

Vehicle Flight Phase Stability

• Outrageous RC Car jumps
• More craziness showing what some of the vehicles can withstand.
• Motocross Jumping HOWTO

Extreme Vehicle Manoeuvrablity

• If only robots could swing from cables!
• Robot firing a "web"
• Using a whip to wrap around obstales

Robot tethering

• Robots at Work in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant - Unit 2
• A paper describing a tether for a rappelling robot.

Balloon winching

• A picture from 1800 showing a plan for a multi-winch balloon.

Sensor deployment

• A paper on "parasitic" Mobility. Other biological analogies have potential too!

• Texas A&M University •