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DIY Segway-Style Balancing Robot

Posted by timothy on from the kamen-flips-through-portfolio dept.

clarionhaze writes "Many have tried, and failed, at getting a robot to sustain it's own balance. However; Steve Hassenplug accomplished it with with a small robot he made out of legos and a program in C that runs on BrickOS, an OS made for Legos! You can check out his site or read the article over at TechTV." Update: 01/18 15:52 GMT by T : Unanimous Cow writes "David Anderson of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group has an excellent web page with images and movies of his two-wheel balancing robot. This one uses a single-axis inertial measurement sensor and is very robust on uneven surfaces and off-road."

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  1. Repeat... by Quixote · · Score: 3, Informative

    Repeat from last year October

  2. Asimo by DrunkenPenguin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Interesting story.. Here's something related: Humanoid robot ASIMO designed by Honda. Check out these impressive movies (realplayer format supported) of ASIMO in action. It would be nice to have one around to clean up the flat for example ;)

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  3. Some have failed, by Openadvocate · · Score: 2, Informative

    but then there are others.
    There's some Quacktime and Real movies.

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  4. Pole-Balancing Robot Projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    More background on pole-balancing, fuzzy logic, neural networks and autonomy.

    Intelligent Autonomous Systems, neat robot projects including a neural-network pole-balancer, with pictures and whitepapers
    Link

    Pole-Balancing Mini-Robot using neural networks
    Link

    Intelligent fuzzy logic and PCB fab with pictures and video
    Link

    Reinforcement Learning Pole-Balancing Applet by Appl
    Link

    Demonstrations of Several Solutions to the Pole-Balancing Problem by Jeff Lawson and Chris Lewis
    Link

  5. Very Old Controls Example by aclaudet · · Score: 4, Informative


    The balancing act is a very old automatic control problem. Solutions are given in almost every text on the subject. You can get more information on it by searching for "inverted pendulum" on google.