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frogbiscuit



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Oooh, my head...

What's a brick?

Can someone explain how Sidewinder works? If those wheelmounts aren't gimballed then how does it not lock up?

Post Sat May 14, 2011 10:14 am 
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A brick is a bot with heavy armour and plenty of speed, usually with vertical sides. The idea is to ram the opponent and break parts shock, or at least to take control and push it around.

Sidewinder uses onmiwheels like this:



With an OMX3 mixer from the Robot Marketplace. The combination allows you to do the same functions as your bogey design, but with half the motors and far less weight. The down side to omniwheels is that they are relatively delicate and need protection.

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Andrew also found out that the omni wheels aren't really necessary and that on most surfaces normal bunnings red wheels worked just as well.

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thatd be kinda cool to just use solid metal wheels. Least theyd be durable Laughing
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I'm curious what everyone thinks about position encoders.
These ESCs (electronic speed control?) I'm guessing must have some kind of position feedback. I can't imagine a featherweight stopping on a dime, without accel/deccel control. So, absolute, incremental, analog... all with +'s and -'s.
What's the general consensus. I was thinking of going analog.

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No feedback in any combat robot esc I know of, you simply get regen to stop your bot as soon as you let off the throttle. Some people use gyro's to assist in heading but that affects the signal fed into the esc, they're fairly 'dumb' as far as motor controllers go, but nice and durable. Smile
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No feedback. They are RC so the driver compensates for everything. Any form of encoder would not last very long.

One thing I did think about was using backEMF to detect the motor speed but I didn't really see much advantage to it. Only thing it would have been good for is stall detection.
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Wow, no wonder the drivetrains take a beating, blows notwithstanding.
Anyone use accelerometer modules, like the Sparkfun ones?

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Well yes but if you increase any decent form of delay in the control it just makes the robot undrivable. There is usually a slight delay in the controller which limits the speed at which you can go from full forwards to reverse.

Only use of accelerometers is for melty brains really. (Usually one or two wheeled robot which spins and pulses on/off motors to do translation)

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I have thought about encoders, I don't see anything inherently fragile about them. You could get better steering response and straight line with encoders than gyro I'd think.
Gyro + encoder would be better still.

not enough roundtoits to actually try anything though
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My programmer guy is a fine human being. He cracked the I2C master slave protocol. Damn, does it get any better? Master controller not talks to slave bogie/weapon controller.

2nd thing, encoder fully functional

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capable of putting bogies in posttion for tank or ackerman, but also pipeline stack of preprogrammed positions.

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Encoder is IR emitter-detector pair, ambient light immune, reflecting off white-painted wedge positioned radially along bogie rim.

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There's any one of a 1000 ways to do it, but here's what works for me. This is the master. DIP on perfoard so easy to hack&change.
Slaves are quad flat packs. DIPs from Jaycar ~$13, QFPs from Farnell also ~$13

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Progress continues, but as they say, the devil is in the details.
So easy to get bogged down in brackets and linkages, a far cry from the lofty concepts at the outset. I never figured.
Much as I'd love to make a commitment, the outcome is presently to unclear. This I will say, there's a 90% chance a featherweight will be ready mid 2nd half of the year.
Been getting some good pointers from you guys, making the waters less murky.

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