Roz - My New Robot

Enter Roz, my take on a Bioloid Quadropod.
It has 14 servos in total, 3 in each leg, and two for a pan/tilt head. Right now I just have a place-holder head attached, with a couple AX-S1's and a serial Jpeg camera. Eventually I will build a much more purposed head.
This body is designed to take an ArbotiX microcontroller board directly. I'll be getting one of those this weekend from the guy who makes them (hi Mike!), who is coming up to the CNRG.
Eventually, I'm going to replace that with a similar board, based on an ARM7 with a wifi interface.
Here's a video of Mike's quad, Issy, set up as a fire-fighter:
He's using a nice little IK (inverse kinematics) engine running on his ArbotiX. We're going to try and get that running on Roz this weekend - we'll see how that goes...
3 Comments:
Looks great! Any chance you can share a link to the IK engine, or if you wrote it yourself, share some source code?
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Keith, At
November 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
http://code.google.com/p/arbotix/wiki/PyPose
NUKE (the IK generator) is currently under development, and not available yet...
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Unknown, At
November 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Wow, very cool. Love the firefighting bot. Makes it look downright easy. :) Have you had a chance to work on Roz lately? -Michael (bot-thoughts.blogspot.com)
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Mike Shimniok, At
February 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM
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