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Re: New technique: three position piston control
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:08:49 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote:

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> 
> 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.

Was this single or dual piston?

> 
> 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.
> 
> Mark

Kevin



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  Re: New technique: three position piston control
 
(...) Mark, Did I miss your answer on this? Kev (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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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 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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