DIY Segway-Style Balancing Robot

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 18, 2003 @02:27AM 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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Repeat... by Quixote · 2003-01-18 02:30 · Score: 3, Informative

Repeat from last year October
Very Old Controls Example by aclaudet · 2003-01-18 07:10 · 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.