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Arduino Motor control

I'm working on a rather low budget project, and need some way to control four or more motors using one Arduino. I've looked at motor shields a little, but I have a shield on top of it already, It does have female input on the top though, so a motor…
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Hand Eye Calibration Solver

I have a rig for which I have a pretty good estimate of the static transformation between the camera and a joint based off of the CAD. It has some errors though and I was hoping to fix it by doing a hand eye calibration. So, I started off with…
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Do "toy" robots move technology forwards?

Over the last month, I saw many robots that don't have any real purpose, which made me ask myself: "Does this have any value?" I saw dancing robot on CES, advanced lego based robots and also robots combined for very limited purpose. I saw ten year…
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How to numerically calculate the Jacobian?

I'm trying to calculate the Jacobian for days now. But first some details. Within my Master's Thesis I have to numerically calculate the Jacobian for a tendon-driven continuum Robot. I have all homogeneous transformation matrices as I already…
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Building a controllable "knob"

I am trying to build a semi-analog timer. Something like those old egg timers that you rotate the face of. I want a knob that I can turn that can be read by a microcontroller, and I also want the microcontroller to be able to position the knob. I'd…
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Getting started with robotic arm design

I would like to design a robotic arm to hold a weight X at length Y (in my case I want to hold X=2.5 lbs at Y = 4 inches). Starting out simply, I would like try building an arm with a gripper plus one servo joint. [Servo Joint] ----- Y ------…
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How do I work out the specifications of motors and propellers for a quadcopter?

What will be the specifications of motors and propellers that can approx produce a thrust of 100kg in a quadcopter? We are planning to lift a total weight of 50 Kg along with the 20 Kg weight of the quadcopter itself. So at 50% throttle the total…
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How can I upgrade an existing robot with a higher torque, sensored motor @ ~100 watts?

I would like a high torque motor (37 oz-in @ 5760 rpm) for souping up a Scorbot 3 I bought. I really need it to have an encoder to count the number of revolutions and to allow high start-up torque. So far, I'm having difficulty finding a suitable…
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Conceptual problem regarding electronic shutters

I have been looking at CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras to decide which one to use in the process of automatic control of a printing process. By now I am getting the grips on almost all the essential numbers and abbreviations but there remains a…
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Is the geometric inverse problem's solution "continuous" for a redundant robot?

Let's say my redundant robot is at an operationnal position $x$. Is the set of all possible joint configuration "continuous", which would mean that it is possible to explore all the possible configurations without moving the end effector. Is there a…
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Cable routing in theta, x, y motion control system. Better inside or outside?

I'm building a motion control platform with 3 DoF: 1 axis of rotation (theta) and 2 cartesian (x,y). In most applications, like wrist actuation, you have an X-Y stage with a rotating servo as the stage's payload. This configuration works well since…
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Can a Jacobian be used to determine required joint angles for end effector velocity/position?

I'm in the early stages of working with a simple robot arm, and learning about the Jacobian and inverse kinematics. From my understanding, the Jacobian can be used to determine the linear and angular velocity of the end effector, given the angular…
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How do you calculate the moment of inertia of a Quadcopter?

I'm building a quadcopter for my final year project. I have a set of equations describing attitude and altitude but they involve $I_{xx}$, $I_{yy}$ and $I_{zz}$. None of the papers I have read describe how these are calculated. they simply choose it…
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Adding external heat sinking to a Dynamixel RX-24F servo?

Hobby servos are generally not sufficient for real robotics for a number of reasons: Quality, precision, range of motion, torque, etc. Meanwhile, industrial servos, such as ABB, Emerson, GE, etc, are generally both heavy and expensive, and not…
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How computationally powerful is an Arduino Uno board?

What can an Arduino board such as the Uno really do? Of course simple things like controlling a couple servos is very easy for it. However, I don't think an Uno board would be able to preform real-time 3D SLAM from point cloud data gathered from a…
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