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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the quad-runner dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Amazing Open Source Quadruped Capable Of Dynamic Motion

The more we read about [Josh Pieper]’s quadruped, the mjbots quad A0, the more blown away we are by his year of progress on the design. Each part of the robot deserves its own article: from the heavily modified brushless motors (with custom planetary gears) to the custom motor driver designed just for this project.

[Josh], realized early on that the off-the-shelf components like an ODrive just weren’t going to cut it for his application. So he designed his own board, took it through four revisions, and even did thermal and cycle testing on it. He ended up with the compact moteus board. It can pump out 400 Watts of peak power while its 3Mbit control protocol leaves plenty of bandwidth for real time dynamic control.

[...] Finally it’s all packed into a neat four-legged robot frame with batteries and a Pi. You can get a video summary of the robot here or after the break, and we recommend reading his blog for some more images and details.

 


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:13PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:13PM (#904801) Journal

    Dynamic Motion?

    Well, they tried Static Motion and nothing happened.

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