Cardinal Gibbons High School

Christopher Randall Bain

Miguel Douglas Chavez

Cassian Farias Kraus

Thomas Ryan Michael Greene

Brigitte Noelle Gallagher

Oliver Dacey McCann

Zachary Clayton Naylor

Ilam Maya

Gillian Nicole Kearney

Evan Patrick Elezaj

Nathan Michael Kearney

Kristen Glielmi

Austin Carlyle Inman Reiss

Oishi Ghosh

Alyssa Mary Nicholas

Adam Hamad Malik

Samuel John Hazinski

Katharine Miranda Priu

Jon Ryan Riley

William Andrew Mullee

Michael Reilly Comstock

James Francis Gbruoski

Thomas Anthony Connor

Disclosed is a self-lifting robot with multi-jointed arm. The robot includes a multipart housing, a traction drivetrain capable of generating translational and rotational motion of the self-lifting robot on a working surface, and a deployment hook configured to release from a storage hanger, thus depositing the self-lifting robot onto the working surface, and configured to re-attach to the storage hanger, thus lifting the self-lifting robot off of the working surface. The robot also includes a multi jointed arm, and a grabber disposed from a free-rotating wrist joint at a distal end of the multi-jointed arm, and configured to grab, hold, and release one or more target objects.

Self-lifting robot with automatic release and multi-jointed arm

A robotic vehicle is provided with a novel wheel design and a virtual differential transmission. The novel wheels are generally rounded with scallops along the outer periphery permitting secure engagement of irregular terrain structures, such as the rungs of an inclined ladder. The virtual differential transmission employs rotational sensors in independently driven wheels to maintain information on the relative rotational position of left- and right-side wheels. When necessary, the relative rotational position information is used to selectively drive the left- or right-side wheel until the scallops in a left-side wheel are horizontally aligned with the scallops in a right-side wheel. Thus, the virtual differential transmission can realign the scallops in left- and right-side wheels to facilitate their mutual engagement with a terrain structure, such as a ladder rung.

Robotic platform with wheeled legs and virtual differential transmission

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Knightdale, NC, United States of America

Christopher Randall Bain