Robot Cat Quadraped (In Progress)

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Robot cat started out as a sketch-up model to work out the dimensions and get a feel for how i could mount the servos together an soon turned into quite a complicated project its a work in progress an quite slow moving due to the quantity of custom parts.

i have included the model and pcb files in the attachment 'robot cat files 1.zip'

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The Servo body is made from 25mm aluminum box section

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it took about 3 hours to build the first one of these hip joints i cut 2 of each part so i can hopefully use them as a template

 

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i will use a 6800mah lipo battery eventually as shown in the sketchup model but for now the nicad will do for testing mockup purposes

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the body and hip servo joints coming together

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i have included the eagle files for my 48 servo controller using an atmega 2560 microcontroler it is unfinished at the moment but if you want to have a look you will need the microbuilder & sparkfun component library's inluded in the zip file (eagle version 6.1)

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as of the actual pc im not sure if i will use a raspberry pi or a via pico itx board for image recognition with open cv and ros if i can ever get my head round it

 

 

Walks Around Navigating obsticals

  • Actuators / output devices: 22x Standard Size Servos, 10x Micro Servos
  • Control method: Autonomous Or Bluetooth / WiFi Control via laptop
  • CPU: atmega 2560 & Raspberry Pi / Pico ITX
  • Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux
  • Power source: Lipo 6800 mAh
  • Programming language: Arduino
  • Sensors / input devices: ultrasonic, Reflective infared distance sensor
  • Target environment: indoor
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/robot-cat-quadraped-in-progress
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Sketch up

That’s an amazing sketch! I’m just starting out in making designs for my robots in Sketch Up!

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Nice project and yet another

Nice project and yet another style. Mostly we see hexapods with their specific leg design. That cat leg design is quite interesting.

I am sure MarkusB would love your aluminum brackets…i do love them too.

Please keep posting more details, pictures, videos…we are hungry for that information.

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**Servo selection **

Thanks everyone.

I had dreams of building a biped originally an then looking at my cat thought actually that solves some of the balance/stability issues I was considering.

the futabas are just for mock-up and trial fitting they were im my box of rc gear

I have been looking at these servos 13kg of torque is quite good for the price at $10 a piece

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__27556__Turnigy_TGY_S901D_Metal_Gear_Digital_Robot_Servo_13kg_0_14sec_58g.html

anyone have any experience with them?

I was thinking of adding some springs or latex tubing to some of the servo joints to try and help off load some of the strain on the servos

as for sketchup stick with it there’s been countless evening’s sitting with a micrometer and a handful of parts and lots of head scratching my advice draw a part and make use of the group/explode tool it helps a lot copy and pasting and moving parts about that and the sketchup warehouse is a great resource and can save a lot of time I didn’t draw the raspberry pi or the hitec servos

 

 

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Indeed I do love home made

Indeed I do love home made aluminium brackets. I would love to see it fall from 5m and land on its feet :slight_smile: