I feel like i am missing something, I will be placing an order for a copy of the lynxmotion visual sequencer as that seems to be the easiest way by far to control a robot, but was wondering what the other control methods one can use are? RoboRealm seemed to be more for vision processing than servo control.
I also tried the microsoft robotics studio, and whilst i’m not a complete stranger to programming that left me totally baffled, I admit now that i haven’t read the tutorial for it yet, but intuitive it is not.
I get the impression you can type C code directly into the lynxterm?, but i’m not really sure on that…
You can use pretty much any control methods, including autonomous with a microcontroller/computer onboard, Radio Control, tethered control using a cable, or wireless control using Bluetooth (serial cable replacement), WiFi, ZigBee, etc. It all just depends on what goal(s) you have for your robot. Tethered control is good for testing, but you can’t actually see a lot of things happening unless you let the robot roam freely around while you watch. This is why some sort of wireless control could be very desirable and it can be used (Bluetooth) in place of a standard serial cable. You treat the Bluetooth link just like the robot was tethered via a standard serial cable.
If you are using the ssc32, then most any type of programming that can send bytes out a serial port probably can be used. The simplest probably would be a batch file that echos the ascii characters to the com port.
Thanks for the replies, i have a bluetooth serial adapter in the post, so i should be good for a short range wireless link, and i think i’ve got the battery/charger thing sorted out now.
I am planning on using one of those gumstix boards or something equivalent, combined with some form of wifi to enable autonomous & web controlled operation (ultimately anyway)
I’ve positioned it so it holds itself up ok, but that involved manually positioning 12 servos, if i wanted to move 2 servos at once, such as both knees, without using the visual sequencer, where do i start?
If you could point me at the right tutorial/manual i’d really appreciate it.
ah sorry, i have a scout kit, with an ssc controller, hooked up to my laptop via serial cable at present.
I’ve got it working to the point where moving the slider in the lynxterm successfully moves or holds all 12 servos so far.
And i know that beyond that i can code routines for movement in C, but the bit in between, is where i seem to be having a blind spot.
Below is the link to the ssc32 user’s guide. It has the info on the servo control format. To operate more than one servo at a time, you put the servo control codes in a string, and then send the string to the serial port. The ssc32 then positions the servos as requested.
