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Quadru-Pet 2 – “Body Physics”November 30th, 2011

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In the video you can see that I am controlling the body position of the robot using an accelerometer. The accelerometer will soon be attached to the robot and ultimately help with balance calculations.


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Quadru-Pet 2 – “Body Shell”November 5th, 2011

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This is the new body shell for my quadruped robot. I’ve also added some wiring sleeves to tidy up the cabling. One of the legs is dragging a little as the screws had come slightly loose. But now the robot is pretty much built I can finally start to concentrate on getting the walking gait smoothed up. I also need to think about what type of sensors to add for 360 degree object awareness.


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