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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 31, 2008 19:51:24 GMT -5
I became interested in robotics lately and I have a question for all you robotics gurus...
How do you do the weight-shift in bipedal walking robots? Ken told me once that Timmy had told him that designing the weight-shift was hard, but I want a more detailed explanation.
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 31, 2008 19:56:44 GMT -5
Well, then the robot picks up its left leg to walk, a machine pumps water into the right leg, keeping it both centered and weighted down.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Feb 8, 2008 11:27:53 GMT -5
How will you maintain the supply of water? It's going to evaporate!
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Post by Kei-Lin on Feb 13, 2008 8:17:45 GMT -5
It's in a sealed tank...
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Post by Sweet Eet on Feb 18, 2008 2:22:22 GMT -5
okay then  |
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Post by Kei-Lin on Feb 27, 2008 0:44:02 GMT -5
This project has been postponed, actually... So we have plenty of time to figure this out.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Feb 27, 2008 2:54:28 GMT -5
If water changes location from one tank to another then it has to have space in which to move - which means it sloshes. If it sloshes then it has potential and kinetic energies... as they change the system is not stable.
What will stablise the system?
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Post by Kei-Lin on Feb 27, 2008 13:55:58 GMT -5
There's a pump that moves it from one tank to the other.
Do you guys know how hydraulic systems work?
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Post by ExoticHunter on Feb 27, 2008 22:59:44 GMT -5
Yes - I understand - but Eet asked what will stabilize the system as the water is being moved from one place to another
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Post by Sweet Eet on Mar 20, 2008 7:32:34 GMT -5
Yeah, Termie!
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Post by Robocop on Oct 8, 2008 14:49:18 GMT -5
If its in a sealed tube, whats unstable about it?
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Post by ExoticHunter on Oct 16, 2008 14:03:10 GMT -5
If the water cannot shift at all the weight cannot shift and the item cannot walk. Walking is based on the ability to shift weight and keep one's balance while so doing.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jul 3, 2009 22:25:45 GMT -5
Isn't there also the element of balance?
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