Free Software for Six Degrees Of Freedom motion (using wiimote)

This video present a free software based machine made by FESTO and LOLITECH for LAAS.

LAAS is a French Scientific Research Lab involved in many scientific areas, mostly related computer and robotics.

For some computer vision experiments, this lab needed a positioning machine able to work within one cubic meter space with 6 degrees of freedom, and with 20ms time accuracy.

Motion control software had to be fully open so that researchers could have full control over positioning.

Realization involved six CANopen servo drives, and one industrial PC acting as a CANopen CNC, running real-time Linux, CanFestival and Beremiz.

As an input device for manual control mode, we used a wiimote.

It was really fun to program this machine, and play with Festo hardware.

http://www.lolitech.fr
http://www.beremiz.org
http://www.canfestival.org
http://www.festo.com
http://www.laas.fr

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• positioning
• machine
• wiimote
• beremiz
• canopen
• canfestival
• motion
• control
• laas
• festo
• lolitech
• vision