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Penn Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 4:30pm

J. Duperret,A. De,S. Roberts,A. Johnson

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

The Engineering department's Kodlab demonstrates how a simple hexapedal robot can walk, run, jump, and follow walls. By using a concepts from topology and differential geometry our robot can do everything from climbing hills in the deserts of Navada to doing robo-parkour jumps. We will give live demonstrations and explain the math behind the algorithms that let us accomplish the behaviors.