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What servos are suitable for a robot like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas?
The Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doesn't actually use servo motors. It uses electrically-powered hydraulic actuation.
I saw a presentation by Boston Dynamics' Marc Raibert where (if I remember ...
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How can a coaxial stepper motor be used to drive the Z axis effector of a SCARA robot?
i found out that it is called an RZ tool ... google scara RZ tool
there is a captive rotating "nut" on the threaded shaft that causes the shaft to move linearly
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What types of actuators do these industrial bots use?
Actuation is a complex subject that cannot be reduces to 1 component alone. It is the interaction of software electronics and mechanics. "Toy" servos tend to incorporate everything in one small ...
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Does MIT Cheetah uses Series Elastic Actuator?
It seems that the answer is that it doesn't actually use either of those designs.
According to the paper Proprioceptive Actuator Design in the MIT Cheetah: Impact Mitigation and High-Bandwidth ...
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What is an "actuation state"
after reading this ... there are mentions of task-space, state-space, configuration-space, etc
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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What is the typical intro example for control systems for a spherical joint?
The best example I can think of would be the spherical pendulum. Albeit, this is not exactly the easiest thing to regulate as you have two degrees of freedom and a frictionless contact (well depending ...
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What types of actuators do these industrial bots use?
A robot like the one you refer to probably has a mix of transmission types that increase in power-to-weight ratio and decrease in size and stiffness as you move outwards on the kinematic chain. The ...
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What are the pros and cons of Zip Chain Actuators in robotics?
The primary feature of a zip chain actuator is that it does not need extra depth to retract into. A standard linear actuator has a slider that will travel back behind the point of actuation. It will ...
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Is it worth designing your own components to mount a ball screw?
The general answer I would give anyone, working on any project, who asked this question:
Should I buy commercially available, off-the-shelf (COTS) parts, or make my own?
would be to always buy off-...
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How to get started on making a dispenser for Indian spices?
You should have a look at small screw conveyors. Either experimentally find out how much you have to turn for your spices or make a feedback loop with a scale.
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Can't Read current on Pololu Dual MC33926 Motor Driver Shield for Arduino
I know this thread is old but it's high on Google results and I would like to clarify for anyone who stumbles upon it in the future an answer not yet listed: this chip is not designed to read current ...
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How can I turn a bowl/glass upside down?
Here's an idea
Explanation
Instead of the servo bearing the weight, there is an axis through the bowl that the servo is attached to. This takes all of the strain off of the servo. The servo arm is ...
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Which motors are used in boston spot robot
I had the chance to play with Spot this afternoon and it is not hydraulic.
I bet for a stepper motor with cycloidal gears and position encoders. But I not really sure which kind of motor. They didn't ...
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Control method of large linear actuator
The LAS3 actuator draws a current of 2.5 Amps @ 24Volts and has a DC motor, so the H-Bridge in the link can be used to control it. It is even a bit overdimensioned. You can link the Ardunio to the H ...
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State of the art trajectory for fine precision robots
For very high-precision applications such as finishing, milling by CNC machines, jerk-bounded trajectories (that is, trajectories comprising polynomials of degree 3 of higher) are often used. If you ...
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Design a robot that can apply hot glue to paper
The problem I see is that after a while of holding the trigger, you have to let go of the trigger and then squeeze again. This is because the trigger has advanced the stick of glue as far as the ...
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Controlling Actuated Robot Hand in Underactuated Manner
I don’t think underactuated is the proper term. You are trying to control multiple actuators with a single DOF. That is redundancy resolution. I have used the Simplex Method to compute stable ...
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Output power of an actuator - General definition
It reads to me like the author is stating that a stiffer material means it could make an actuator with more output power, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Maybe they mean a more efficient ...
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Why Hydraulics and Not Motors?
Hydraulics and pneumatics let you separate the mechanical power generation component (compressor, hydraulic power unit, etc.) from the actuator. In the case of something like a robotic arm, this means ...
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What type of actuators are needed for a high accuracy, low load weight robotic arm?
Ask yourself if you really need accuracy or precision. Because I think precision is easier to achieve than accuracy for most arms.
I am not sure I would be as worried about the actuator as the gear-...
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Controlling motion of single link
I believe all of the above is correct, but if someone thinks otherwise I would welcome the correction.
Yes, it's correct.
The boundary conditions now include (I think) $\ddot{\theta} = 0$ at $t=0$ ...
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What is the typical intro example for control systems for a spherical joint?
not a direct answer, but I would recommend you the following lessons by Peter Corke: robotacademy: joint control
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Calculate the inertia matrix of complex robotic mechanism
It is approximate and very accurate as long as the material properties are well defined. Many methods are combined to get it. Moment of inertia, parallel axes, mass distribution, etc etc. ...
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How to balance a long vertical bar
I believe your intuition about using push-pull linear actuators is in the right direction: you would have a quite hard time to control such a structure.
Traditionally, to deal with a cart-pole system ...
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What do the model numbers in Harmonic Drive gear drives represent?
It is the pitch diameter of the flex spline in inches/10. You can see it used it their equations for thrust force on the wave generator.
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Potentiometer as pressure sensor in linear actuator?
Yes, you'll see the position become fairly stable when you've hit a rock (assuming that your bot is heavy enough to stall your actuator).
Measuring current will also tell you if you've stalled/are ...
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Rotary Serial Elastic Actuator
For an arm with series elastic actuators I'm not aware of an open source design. There are many mechanisms you can find in research papers if you search for them.
For force control you have a few ...
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Rotary Serial Elastic Actuator
There was a paper describing a rotary series elastic actuator for human-assistive systems in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2012).
The paper included diagrams of the ...
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Replace screws with motors!
You are best off using the servo's horn/hub (the plastic or metal disk or arm that you attach to the servo), and screwing the arm to the hub. You get buy some larger horns for fairly cheap, and that ...
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Electronic Spring Vibrating Spheres
The term for the electrical component that actuated (vibrates) at a selectable frequency is "Piezoelectric actuator". You can also examine vibration motors, like in the mobile phones or in the ...
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