This is my robotic snake design. It performs short demo when front IR sensor detects object. I’ll call this Version 1 since I have been cooking up a second version.
Music: Paco DeBongo – Silver & Black
http://bigmech.com/bioloid/
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This is the first Robotis Bioloid ever to do a complete cartwheel!
Although it looks like I am “helping” it in the second half of the cartwheels, I am not. My hand is 1 – 2 inches away. It was a reflex because of the few times William (the Bioloid in the video) slammed against the wood board in the back.
http://ribolabs.wordpress.com
http://www.huvrobotics.com
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Kinematic system that operates just by getting a new target position (inverse kinematics) everything else is done autonomously. This demonstration has 4 different target positions only and it shows the system’s accuracy even at a very high speed.
This is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up a climbing wall (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.
The final scenario will be a bioloid looking at the wall using an onboard vision system, detecting marked grips, calculating the best way up, walking to the start position and climbing up the wall, totally autonomously.
My part so far was developing a motion planning system which is a simulation of the real wall that calculates possible paths and developing a motion control system based on inverse kinematics so that now you can send a command like “left hand position 250/175″ and the robot is hooking its new climbing hook-hand into a grip being at this position. (I made new hook-hands and climbing feet to make the robot able to climb, too)
See the other videos showing the climbing process and explaining more details.
This is part of a university cooperation project done by Marco Wickrath.
(Technical University of Dortmund, Germany & University of Manitoba, Canada)
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This is a “gerwalk” or bird-gated robot. Another std assembly from the Robotis Bioloid kit.
Main concerns in getting this thing to walk were (a) tightening all bolts REALLY well (but not over-tight), especially after the first run-through of the demo s/w, and (b) a REALLY hard surface to walk on.
The bot even acts a bit like a chicken, with jerky (cartoony) bird-like movement of the legs. In some cases even on a carboard-on-carpet runway, the jerks threaten to knock the thing over.
On a solid plank or desktop it behaves a bit better.
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This is a quick, simple (and totally ghetto) solution for controlling my Bioloid with a wireless game controller.
http://bigmech.com/bioloid/
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This is my first original Bioloid creation. I made a programmable version of the popular Armitron from the 80’s. You know, the one Radio Shack sold. The Armatron was on every junior roboteer’s Christmas list.
http://bigmech.com/bioloid/
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Bioloid Slope test by smoothchat
Stabilising using Kalman filtered IMU data
Bioloid dosen’t like being pushed
The Bioloid dances to some K-Pop.