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Re: Gripper and lift arm with single motor
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:38:38 GMT
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Hey, this was done in the old Control Center, (with yellow pieces), where a
robot picked up bricks and put them in a container. It used only one motor
(old) and looked very cool!
--Tobias
> I hope someone can help me with this
>
> I tried most of the weekend to try and build a mechanism to grab an item
> (49.6x28 VR wheel) and lift it using one new type motor (the ones in the
> RIS). All my attempts seem to either self destruct or just didn't work.
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> Basically my designs were based upon fixing an axle at the lift pivot point
> and using a pair of bevel gears to produce rotation to drive a gripper.
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> What I would like to be able to do is drive the jaw once it is closed the
> lift mechanism would engage. I just couldn't get it right and its getting
> me a bit frustrated.
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> NO I can't just use another motor and some touch sensors, I need the motors
> for drive adder/subtractor based tracked vehicle and the sensor inputs for
> navigation and object detection
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> Anybody give me any pointers to designs on the web which actually work - I
> know Ben Willamson had a design but that doesn't give enough movement of
> the gripper jaws for my project
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> TIA
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> David Walton
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> Email: d.walton@ndirect.co.uk
>
> Take a look at my homepage (still under construction though)
> http://www.walton.ndirect.co.uk/
>
> Now on ICQ: 44277445
>
> "If it ain't broke don't fix it !!"
>
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