Towards Inexpensive, Capable, and Pervasive Robotics
Humans have amazing abilities. Highly dexterous hands, joints that can rotate and flex to many angles, highly adept sense of balance, and the ability to hone and polish muscle movements to accomplish tasks in incredible ways. And the more a person can get done in a shorter amount of time, while still doing a good … Read more
The cable tension switch sensor for the Open Tentacle robot project, is designed to detect when the cable is slack. Binary in the sense of is the cable slack; yes / no. Knowing if a tendon cable is slack will allow the control software to tell the motors to move and tighten up that cable. … Read more
The goal of this motion study on the continuum tentacle robot arm that I am developing, was to measure the relationship between tendon/cable movement and the movement of the being affected by the tendon tension. This photo shows the arm system before the motors were moved to the top of the plate, and gives an … Read more
Was thinking about how to implement pressure sensors on the end of the prototype robot continuum arm that is in progress. I want to measure the tension of the tendons, and placing a sensor on the end seemed to be a logical solution, but a tricky thing to do. I did a search on how … Read more