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Re: Self-Balancing 2 Wheeled Robot

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Originally Posted by colt527
Hmm, I think this is a quite a task to take on, You are basically reproducing a segway and Im pretty sure Human Like movement based on balance is not an easy thing to pull off both programming-wize and mechanical wize. Its going to take a lot of effort to pull it off.
Let's not forget that Mike was the one who coded a working autonomous code that used the camera and capped the vision tetra.

I think you may find this site very informative:
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/robo/nbot/

Also, people have built a "Legway" balancing robot using Lego Mindstorms:
http://www.generation5.org/content/2004/legway.asp
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