Challenging: Scilab, NXTOS and an Acrobot hobby project

[manskie]

Dear Readers,

Who want's to contribute to a high skilled hobby project: building an lego unicycle robot based on the acrobot principle. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFfWYtk ... re=related.

Proposed Hardware an OS en software language
Hardware: Lego NXT and additional sensors of HiTechnic
Operating System: NxtOs http://lejos-osek.sourceforge.net/
Software language : C
IDE: Eclipse - cdt on windows http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
Modelling Scilab. http://www.scilab.org/

Proposed Roadmap:
Stage 1. Balancing the Nxt Unicycle with an Acrobot controller. Model Acrobot dynamics in Scilab
. Develop Acrobot balancing controller
. Choosing sensors en algoritmes for measuring primitives like (angle, angle rate, etc)
. Design Lego Acrobot NXT construction
. Implement Scilab Controller in the lego NXT Acrobot.

Stage 2. Steering the Nxt Unicycle.
To be defined.

eg. an old project of a Lego RCX unicycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnRV-ggJmQ4

[jojoguy14]

COOL! Too bad I don't know how to use NXTOs...or Scilab . Good luck! Can't wait to see it in action!

jojoguy10