RE: Bioloid software, help required

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I am using the bioloid comprehensive kit for my 4th year engineering project. I have a few questions regarding motion editor and the behavior controlled programs of the kit:

  1. Is there a way to edit existing motion edited programs? For example, if we built a puppy and wanted to modify some of the existing motions (ie. change the forward walk page#2 motions slightly), how could this be achieved?

  2. If I built a certain robot configuration and added additional AX-12+s to it, but still wanted to keep the same robot behavior but add more motions. Is this possible? If so, how can it be done?

  3. We have hooked up an external sensor using a microcontroller. How can you take an output from the sensor as an input to the CM-5 and have the robot perform a certain action? Is there a command in the behavior control program that accepts serial communication as an input to the CM-5? If not, how can this be achieved?

Regards,
-Ronnie

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Hi,

I’m trying to interface the bioloid robot with a microcontroller. Is there any way that you can take a command (input) into the serial port of the CM-5 and have the robot perform a specific action? If not, is there another way I can go about using a microcontroller to control the robot?

Regards,
Ronnie

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Hi rfarrel4

  1. Motion files can be exported from the CM-5 (Mangement->Robot Motion) but need to be edited in the robot’s memory once uploaded, in the motion editor.

2)Yes you should be able to manually edit the robot files for custom robot constructions (.rbt files). Optionally, you can export new 3D models in .x format to represent your robot inside the motion editor.

  1. Since you are using a microcontroller, then you may interface it with the CM-5 bus. The CM-5 is not designed to be hacked in this manner so this will require more research and experimentation. You may find help online as others have attempted to interface sensors with Bioloid.

Regards,

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Yes this is possible, but highly advanced (There is not alot of documentation on this).

You will need to hack it, possibly using the Zigbee port RX/TX lines to communicate and puppeteer the CM-5.

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