NXT Mindstorms Walking Robot Biped - Pinocchio

[AaronLow1]

no way. but.. it cant walk on its own, can it?

[tarribas]

Good Work.

[ivancito54]

rope does not make sense



[holyhell5050]

Excellent job!

[mynameisnotbob910]

thus how C3-PO was created

[MrQuadraguy]

Holy shit mindstorm asimo legs !

[Xdoggydog297x]

This is a top-shelf, high grade robot in America. Don't you find it interesting that they spend millions, if not billions of dollars to get to this point?

[Morenob]

I GIVE YOU 5 SECONDS TO REPLY!!!

[alexderkeks1212]

Fifa 12

[igorstoppa]

google translate does a fair job at rendering the pages in english

[MrMeloneee]

there is a hp with the results and the programming (screenshots from the software), but its in german. maybe it would help u.

.lauflabor.uni-jena

.de/wiki/index

.php/Laufroboter

[MrMeloneee]

world wide web + the 3 parts one after the other

[MrMeloneee]

the sensors at the front are ultrasound-sensors. we used them to get a basic/initial position. they were our best idea ;)

the software we used was only the nxt mindstorms software.

there was a mix of realtime control and predefined gait motion. the two nxt bricks interact with each other. the right one was the master and the other was the slave. 

[MrMeloneee]

first:sorry for my bad english,but i'll try to explain our project :)

yes,we had to use strings, because the whole construction is too heavy, the mindstorm servo motors are too weak and it was impossible for us to balance it.

we tried to lighten it (we removed the nxt bricks) but the wires between bricks and motors had influence on the balance (even with the strings).

the robot runs on a treadmill, so there was an interaction between both. that meens the movement would only work on the treadmill

[parisien01001]

der ist zu schwer.. schade aber echt gut !!!

[ArthurFreitag]

Hello. Nice leg movement but i noticed that the robot have two wire crossing up above its head. So, does the gravity play some role on the movement that you got or if you let the robot loose the strings it can walk normally?

[Heinzelmann6]

@ArthurFreitag Yes the gravity play a role it only can walk with the strings.

[maikeru01]

@ArthurFreitag youve got to get the motion right before you can expect it to balance. the wires are necessary.

[wackywankavator]

@ArthurFreitag

It's not supporting it's own weight from the looks of things, if that's what your asking.

[IPODsify]

Make it wireless (just a suggestion)

[efstratos96]

@IPODsify it cant walk without the cables

[goldencricket]

@efstratos96 I don't think it can walk without the treadmill either.

[CognitiveNetwork]

@IPODsify LOOOOOOOOOOOL

[Tytteboevsen]

Very impressive.

Does it balance on its own? and is there any realtime control in it or did you "just" have it do a predefined gait motion?

[dranoel1963]

the early terminator?

[Lupinua]

Echt cool!!

[Heinzelmann6]

We use Ultraschall Sensors at the front.

[jimday666]

what sensors are there at the front?

[AgentH53]

Wow... Best 8 seconds ever.

[fasolyo0o0o]

very cool robot! he needs balance

[RagnarokStudio]

really nice humanoid project!

it might be waaaay too expensive, but: if you combine about 3 nxt sets you can build a human torso...but: too expensive...it really sucks how much you pay for that stuff...either I'd build an android army and enslave the netherlands...muahahahahahaaaa­...just for the hoes of amsterdam....

[jimday666]

@RagnarokStudio believe me a fine institute could easily pay that amount of money. at our university we had 12 sets of nxt.

[GreenJalapeno]

:O REALLY cool walker. With bigger feets, maybe it culd walk on the floor without the cabels to support it? Did you program it with the programming software or something other? If it is something other: what did you use?

[ubberJakerz]

ahhh! zombie robots

[AlchmstFullMetal]

thats frickin awesome!!! instructions please!!!!

[BloodNuva]

Scary

[Revcion535]

O.o