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Re: balancing bot
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:48:36 GMT
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John Hay <jhay@icomtek(avoidspam).csir.co.za>
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Hi Dan,
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> lately I've been playing with legway-inspired ideas. After much frustration, I'm finally getting
> some results using a standard lego light sensor with some custom enhancements (not taking it
> apart, just adding a lens and a light source). At this point I think the problems are more
> software control than hardware issues. I'm curious if anyone has been working on something
> similar, and/or would anyone be interested in trading ideas, designs, and software? The eventual
> goal is to design a two-wheeled balancing robot that can be built with standard Lego parts. I'm
> convinced it's possible.
I have also been playing with it the last week or so and got it to work.
At the end I used Steve's legway.c program with everything except the
balancing removed and used the raw sensor values, tweaked a bit. That
together with two "hardware mods". I had to mount the sensor at an angle,
and not directly downwards and do it in a darkish room.
You can see photos and the modified program at:
ftp://ftp2.za.freebsd.org/pub/lego/balance/
John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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| thanks much for the links! Using a mod of Frederic Siva's code, I've managed to get my bot somewhat stable. It wobbles around like a drunken sailor but basically stays up. I've got a movie file of it careening around the floor for about a minute (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| hi all-- lately I've been playing with legway-inspired ideas. After much frustration, I'm finally getting some results using a standard lego light sensor with some custom enhancements (not taking it apart, just adding a lens and a light source). At (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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