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Re: New technique: three position piston control
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:00:40 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote:
In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote:

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I already have a paper design for a six legged walker with three leg groups
using forward/mid/back leg sweeps (what a surprise!)  It walks using a 9 step
sequence.  It only uses mid-stop on expansion, but not on contraction.

Please let me know what you think.

Kev

Interesting stuff!  Should make walkers move more smoothly, with the possibility
of more groups of legs.  The trick will then be reversing all the groups, since
it was easier with just two, using two polarity reversers.

I have a centre-stop mechanism for pneumatic steering for a JCB.  It's not part
of an automatic system though, since I don't yet have an application for that.

Does your centre stop cylinder stop accurately in the same place every time,
even under different pressure conditions?  I thought if you put a lot of source
pressure into the cylinder it might overshoot the mid-point, whereas with low
pressure it would creep up to it.  Accurate repeatable positioning is one of the
challenges of this scheme.

The center stop is not the same spot when expanding vs. contracting.  I did not
try it at different pressures.  I just pumped a hand pump as fast as I could to
make the sequencer go.

I've not seen it overshoot the mid point.


Mark

Kevin



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(...) 6 legs and 3 leg groups is a great idea!! (...) I've think about overshooting the mid point and i don't know sure but i think it will overshoot the mid point whan you link them in serie isn't it?... and when you build it into a walking beast i (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)

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  Re: New technique: three position piston control
 
In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: (SNIP) (...) Interesting stuff! Should make walkers move more smoothly, with the possibility of more groups of legs. The trick will then be reversing all the groups, since it was easier with just two, using (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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