Excellent post and looking forward to seeing it grow even more.
Hardware
- At lynxmotion, we’re currently deciding between a Pi4 and an NVidia Jetson. @cmackenzie is heading up the ROS 2.0 development for the SES V2 humanoid and has gotten quite far.
- Lynxmotion is also considering the OAK-D camera and @geraldinebc15 is doing research on the best overall solution.
- Any particular reason you opted for an octopod? You might want to jump onboard the SES V2 Hexapod project which is very close, and has community participation.
- It has been accomplished before using SES V1 hexapod(s), but it is not very efficient (legged robots weight quite a bit). If you really want legged + mutirotor, you might reduce some of the DoF, which brings back point 3 above.
Software
- Certainly.
- Absolutely.
- Nothing specific, but not aware of too many octopod models. You really might want to start with a hexapod which will allow you to work more closely with other developers here.
- Exactly.
- Can cover ideas in a separate response.
- Not sure GPS is very useful, especially since it’s more of an indoor robot. You might be better off with an IMU with integrated compass. One bad flight of the drone = expensive write-off. If you do ever go this route, suggest progressively adding dead weight to the drone part to represent the legged part rather than flying with the actual robot.