Robotics research student, Mike Hopkins from Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) demonstrates the sea state stability of the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) at NRL’s Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). By ‘nudging’ at the robot while standing on a simulated and unstable shipboard platform, Hopkins is able to demonstrate the robot’s ability to reamin standing even under the most abrupt changes to platform pitch and roll, or simulated sea state conditions.
