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[527]phil 26-07-2005 22:09

pic: Robo-one legs
 

Arefin Bari 26-07-2005 22:11

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I must say that this is one of the coolest project I have seen around in this forum. But I do have questions for you...

In the picture you are using 11 servos... if you are adding a body with arm and a head, you would add atleast another 5 servos. How are you planning on powering 16 servos to work the same. What kind of controllers would you use and why? Do you think you will need more than one controller? what kind of battery are you going to use? Don't you think it will weigh a lot which may cause it to tip over?

The legs look cool. Great job man.

santosh 26-07-2005 22:21

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That looks pretty awesome. Nice job.

mechanicalbrain 26-07-2005 22:24

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very nice!

spears312 26-07-2005 22:57

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Cool. I tried something like that once (but w/ Lego's, needless to say, it never really "worked", per say). Have you given it a test yet and will it have a gyro sensor to detect and compensate for balance? It really want to see this thing walk! :D

mechanicalbrain 26-07-2005 23:04

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http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~almir/ this is also pretty cool and very similiar. i highly recomend the movie.

Arefin Bari 26-07-2005 23:26

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~almir/ this is also pretty cool and very similiar. i highly recomend the movie.

That is one cool robot. Definitely check out the video. It's one of the very intelligent robot I have encountered in my FIRST career. After watching the video all I could think or say was "I wanna make one of those."

[527]phil 27-07-2005 09:33

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We'll I've already tested it and it walks fine. I'm using a lynxmotion BASIC atom pro 24 pin module and their mini Atom bot board. I'm going to have to purchase their servo controller though because I need to control (ready for this) 19 servos. I didn't really design it to walk up stairs but it can. And I'm not using any gyros (yet), it just takes about 400,000,000,000,000,000 tries before I get the servo placements and timings right so it doesn't fall over. I plan on putting up a video of it walking, but first I have to program it. If you plan on building something like this DON"T but the BASIC atom pro + bot board, it can control 20 servos, but only 1 at a time. So lets say i want the legs to crouch and both motors need to move an equivalent of lets say 800, I have to divide it by a big number and then move each one back and forth.

IE.
SERVO 1, 5
SERVO 2, 5
SERVO 1, 5
SERVO 2, 5
etc.

O, and for the batteries, I'm just using a 9 volt battery because the BASIC atom board can take up to 9 volts and convert it to 5 volts for the micro controller and the servos.

Andrew Rudolph 27-07-2005 18:29

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Ive seen videos of these kinda robots they are really impressive to watch move.

mechanicalbrain 27-07-2005 18:34

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yeah i was specifically impressed with the logic programming on that robot.

[527]phil 27-07-2005 18:42

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I'm having trouble with the programming though, if anyone knows how to put voltage through a pin in order to keep a servo from moving, or if you know how to make more than one servo move at a tine, OR if you know how to sue the pulsout command, please help!!

mechanicalbrain 27-07-2005 18:56

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you tell the servo the angle you want it the potentiometer inside it will keep it at that angle and as long as power runs to the servo it will "lock" it at that angle. i recomend Robot DNA building Robot Drive Trains. its a must.

mechanicalbrain 27-07-2005 19:07

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i did a sumo bot that ran on servos. keep in mind if the servos aren't quite up to the job you can get more power from the motors by giving them more juice than their rated for. note that this is actually safe as long as your careful. you can run a servo on up to 12 volts but the motor will get warm pretty fast and i would not recommend running them more than 4-6 min on a high voltage (and yes this will lower the milege of your motors but the speed and power increase is worth it).

tiffany34990 27-07-2005 19:47

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wow!! that's really nice!! great job... what exactly do you want this bot to do???

sanddrag 27-07-2005 19:54

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I think that's a lot of load for those servos to handle at the top, but it does look like it will be cool once it gets moving. It will never outrun anything with wheels, but it definitely scores in the articulation category.


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