The basic idea of the spider and its movement has been hypothesized. We are attempting to have the spider behave in a way similar to that of a cockroach. This movement is done with 6 legs in which 3 move in a upwards and forwards direction while the other 3 move down and backwards. This group of three legs are located on the creature as follows, the two outside legs on one side and the middle leg on the other side In order to visualize this a video of a cockroach walking can be shown below.
This behavior of walking was analyzed and mimicked to create a mechanism that will allow this movement. Specifically a frame is needed to hold 6 servo motors. The servo motors will move the legs forward and baakwards while the frames moves the motors up and down. This can be seen in the animation shown below.
This view of this previous animations is with a perspective displaying the bottom of the spider. Another view of the animation showing the mechanism that specivically raises each motor up and down is shown in the next animation below.
The whole team was present on Wednesday for about an hour discussing the overview of the project, what to be done next, generating prototype parts for the spider, and possible materials that need to be purchased.
A blog post displaying the prototypes of the parts, time spent working on the project of the members, and a further update in general of how the project is going and where to proceed is soon to come.
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