Robotik-AG des Gymnasiums Markt Indersdorf
First we fixed the Arduino to the base. Then we built our first chassis out of cardboard. Our current chassis is made of wood. We wired everything up. Next week we will test the robot to see if it works. (author: Alexander)
After countless hours of consideration, discussion, and research, we’ve composed a final plan for our tower. We decided to follow the idea mentioned in our previous blog post of merging design elements of the Chinese Tower from the English Garden in Munich with a Tensegrity structure. For the Tensegrity part, … Weiterlesen …
After at least somewhat understanding how Tensegrity works, we wondered how we could plan a completely original tower design. At first, we looked into the math that revolves around this principle and quickly realized that it was far from the relatively simple math that we were taught in school so … Weiterlesen …
This week we have continued to work on our SIMAs. We have now created a complete 3D model of the SIMA. Once we had designed it, we started to build the upper part of the SIMA. The chassis and the buttons of our test SIMA are completely finished, we will … Weiterlesen …
To build a Tensegrity tower, we have to do an immense amount of research. So let me tell you what we found out so far. Even though we focused on towers in our case, there is no certain way that a tensegrity structure has to look. This principle can also … Weiterlesen …
We’ve successfully completed the movement challenge! After running into unforeseen difficulties at the very last minute, we were glad that we prevailed nonetheless. We were surprised to see the robot drive with the accuracy that it did after seeing it completely mess up so many times. I won’t bore you … Weiterlesen …
After careful consideration, we‘ve determined the direction we’ll take from now on in this project. As you already know from our previous post, we were set on having Tensegrity as our main idea. But we decided to expand on this even further. We plan to include elements of the “Chinese … Weiterlesen …
Shortly after making the changes from the last blog post, we tested the hardware by putting code into the Arduino UNO, but for some reason, nothing happened no matter how we changed the code. After a couple of hours of trying, we realized that the circuit didn’t work as intended … Weiterlesen …
Since the last blog post about our hardware, we realized a small rookie mistake with the wiring: We connected the stepper motors with a servo board, which doesn’t make sense because stepper motors aren’t servos. Thus we needed to change some things up and connect the motors to microstep drivers … Weiterlesen …
Last week we came up with new ideas for our robot. We planned to use a simulator to split problems between hardware and software. We also continued working on the SIMAs and came up with a concept for path planning. In addition, we plan to use trajectory control to have … Weiterlesen …