Thomas Messerschmidt

Self-Balancing Robot

19 Mar 2017 · 1 min

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Two engineers demonstrate a self-balancing robot that moves forward and backward but can only rotate in place. The accelerometer sits near the center of gravity to maintain balance, though full directional control remains a work in progress.

Can go back and can go forward.
Oh, why don't you put them on the floor so we can—
As always, um, well, I think this is it.
Can you turn it in a circle?
Uh, it turns around its own axis, and that's as good as it gets. I never got to the point where I can just drive it somewhere. So there's a servo Here, and when the servo goes forward—
Where'd you position the accelerometer? Sorry? Where'd you position the accelerometer?
About here, close to the axis of gravity, of center of gravity.

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