Recent content by Erik Bethke

Acceleration! Thank you - that is a big one. What do you think about building essentially a spreadsheet of sub-jobs each with their own costing. Then to create a robot I composite the sub tasks... Crudely: 1) Haul mass for a distance of d meters on level, hard surface, in time t 2) Haul mass...

Oh, I should have added, I am not designing one or two robots. But will be on the order of 200-1000 specific robots. It is a software simulation to help solve a larger goal. The errors on the robots power needs if they are within a factor of 2 or so would be fine. I do not want to be off by...

Hello all, I am designing a lay-person-facing simulation that includes robots performing a broad array of tasks. I do not want to create magical can-do-anything robots that collapse all work to be performed to a simple abstraction. Rather, I would like to have relatively dedicated and...