Bipedal Walking Research

Inspiration

Biped robots have a lot of difficulty with their balancing, this is improving though.

What it does

What it does is that it is to develop it's own walking method that is rewarded based on a rewards system.

How I built it

I built it using the Raspberry Pi as the high level controller that takes the world input and uses that to determine the movement required. The arduino is used as the relay for the communication between the Raspberry Pi and the Dynamixel Servos

Challenges I ran into

The challenges that I ran into were communicating between the Raspberry Pi and the Dynamixel servos, that required the arduino to act as a relay and convert the signals from the Raspberry Pi to the servos.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The Dynamixel servos are a hassle to communicate with and the ability to get them moving with the Raspberry pi, albeit through an arduino, is something that I am proud of.

What I learned

Dynamixel servos are annoying

What's next for Bipedal Walking Research

To implement the world sensing and the neural network.

Built With

• arduino
• dynamixel-servos
• python
• raspberry-pi