{"id":1261,"date":"2010-03-09T07:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-05-25T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T07:02:41","slug":"openmr-modular-robots-plug-in-for-openrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/openmr-modular-robots-plug-in-for-openrave\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenMR: Modular Robots plug-in for Openrave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog-minicube-i-openmr-1.jpg\" alt=\"blog-minicube-i-openmr-1\" title=\"blog-minicube-i-openmr-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog-minicube-i-openmr-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog-minicube-i-openmr-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently I am working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=OpenMR:_Modular_Robots_plug-in_for_Openrave\">OpenMR<\/a>: an <strong>OpenRave Modular Robots plug-in<\/strong> for simulating the locomotion of modular robots. It is in an early stage of development.<\/p>\n<p>It consist of a hierarchy of controllers. At the lowest level is the <strong>servocontroller<\/strong>. This controller allow the users or higer leves to set the position of a simulated servos. Above it is the <strong>sinoscontroller<\/strong>: sinusoidal oscillations controller. It in charge of generating sinusoidal oscillations on the servos from the parameters: amplitude, initial phase, period and offset.  This controller is enough for making the snake or caterpillar robots to move with different gaits: sidewinding, rolling, rotating, etc.<\/p>\n<p>At the top level is executed the user script or another high level controller.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind OpenMR is <strong>to dump all the knoledge generated in my<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Juan_Gonzalez:PhD_Thesis\">PhD Dissertation<\/a> <strong>into a software tool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Juan_Gonzalez:Main\">Obijuan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I am working on the OpenMR: an OpenRave Modular Robots plug-in for simulating the locomotion of modular robots. It is in an early stage of development. It consist of a hierarchy of controllers. At the lowest level is the servocontroller. This controller allow the users or higer leves to set the position of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/openmr-modular-robots-plug-in-for-openrave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OpenMR: Modular Robots plug-in for Openrave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modular-robot","category-robotica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iearobotics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}