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Quadruped robots may one day give seeing-eye dogs a run for their money

11-07-2023 • arclein

The commercially available bot comes standard with sensors that allow it to perform functions such as obstacle detection/avoidance, trajectory planning, and navigation ?" all of which would come in very handy for guiding blind users. Working with computer science students David DeFazio and Eisuke Hirota, Zhang designed and added an interface to which an ordinary dog leash was attached. Via a reinforcement learning process, custom locomotion control software was then "trained" to turn the robot left or right when the user tugged the leash in the corresponding direction.

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Reported By robert klein

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