Does anyone have any walking patterns for a Biped Scout? (LYNXmotion)

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I recently got a LYNX Biped Scout and found that it is really hard to actually come up with a working "Gait" or walking pattern.

Making a servo move is easy, that's not the problem, I previously built a robotic arm from scratch (I have pictures if anyone is interested) and that one can be controlled via Arduino and a few potentiometers as it only has 4 degrees of freedom so it's not too hard to keep track of the different limbs.

However the Scout is a different beast entirely. It's a purpose built kit with 12 servos and to control them I'm using the LYNX SSC-32 Sequencer which is distributed freely on their website. The only problem is that making them all move in sequence to produce a convincing walking motion is actually really hard.

Has anyone got any patterns for this robot they would be happy to share?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '16 at 18:51

I recently acquired a scout like you and am facing a similar problem. I don't know of any areas with gaits predefined, so you'll have to experiment. For short term you could hard-code a walking gait into a micro-controller. For long term you will need to program a micro-controller with inverse kinematics and possibly Zero Moment Point (or you could hard-code balance) and then feed that data for foot positions.

Hope this helps :)

Does anyone have any walking patterns for a Biped Scout? (LYNXmotion)

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