We are planing a project with an autonome robot. We want to use a platform like the t-hex, but as we see it, it has a critical design flaw like the rest of the lynxmotion walkers. It do not have a pressure plate in the tip of its leg that senses when the leg hits the ground or something stable, if it could sense a level of pressure. If it had such a funktion it could be an awesome platform. Because then the leg could get a stop impulse when the leg hit the ground regardless of the ground level, and it go in climbing mode and walk on stairs(if its big enough), and so on.
Do any one have had the same idea, to improve the platform in this way?
I do not have a leg, but have read the assembly guides, and it should be possible to make some kind of robust pressure switch.
