The Japanese will teach robots to walk on the sand

A group of Japanese experts in robotics led Syunsuke Komidzunaya anthropomorphic robots are going to learn to walk on the sand.

Scientists have collected a robot as a man and forced him to walk on the sand with support, Lenta. ru. On the robot was installed accelerometers to record the acceleration of individual parts. Scientists say that the data collected will help in creating compensation systems that allow robots to move around the surface of the granular.
Creating an effective scheme of movement of robots on the sand is an actual engineering problem. In February 2009 an article appeared that scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology provided an apparatus for rapid movement of the sand.
It is a platform equipped with six wheels, a special form. At the heart of the new system is the fact that rapidly rotating wheel stuck in the sand, and slowly rotating - no. Movement of the robot system is designed so that the wheels rotate at different speeds.