Greetings,
I am a 4th year Engineering student doing my thesis this year. My project is about using a inertial motion suit (can capture acceleration, velocity etc) to control a robot, can either be a full robot but I’m aiming just to get an arm working for now. This will need to happen in real time. A lot of the robots I have looked at here allow you to pre-program robots or control them by a remote of some kind.
Just wondering if you have any robots here or have any suggestions/ideas that would allow me to control a robot which is connected to my computer (wired/wireless) in real time from data obtained/classified/processed at the same time (slight delay of cause).
Thanks!
Hey, Thanks for the reply.
Sorry I should have mentioned I already have a motion capture suit (that uses inertial sensors) so that section is fine. Just looking for a robot that has sufficient software that would allow me to input data for movements in real time.
Do you know any robots or software that is able to do this?
Thanks!
RobotShop offers a selection of robotic arms you can choose from. We don’t offer a complete motion capture suit yet, so you will likely need to create your own. Another approach is to use a Microsoft Kinect to track the motion; there are many people working on them and quite a lot of code has been created. If you want to use sensors like a gyro / accelerometer, you’ll need to determine the location and orientation of each. We suggest a low g accelerometer and low angular gyro.
If you can accept a slight delay, the Johnny 5 is great for human control (two arms, torso etc). You would need a wireless device connected to the SSC-32.
Check out the video. It can certainly use some tweaking, but you get the idea…
