Self balancing Botguy

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The CBC v2 computer has PID motor control and accelerometer. Has anyone tried building a self- balancing robot that drives on only two wheels, just like Botguy?

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That would be very difficult.

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Its been done using the RCX and light sensors. Substitute the light sensors with the accelerometer. Here is a link to Legway: http://www.generation5.org/content/2004/legway.asp

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Calling the accelerometer and setting motor speed (which are both on/controlled by the CBOB) each take a few milliseconds, so I doubt you could get the refresh rate needed for something like that.


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I actually designed one a few years back using the XBC and a few Tophat sensors. It worked pretty well. Also got it to almost work with sonce Ultrasonic sensors.

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