an open source cable driven robot
RopeBot is back… for almost two years there were no new videos on YouTube. But a lot has happened in that time. The student hobby project became a university research project.
In this video you can see our third prototype: A redundant, suspended cable-driven robot with 8 cables and all 6 degrees of freedom. It was developed as part of the final theses of Konrad Wauer and Jonas Bieber.
https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ifkm/dmt/forschung/projekte/RobeBot
This is the second prototype of the project RopeBot.
The main control loop is implemented in C++ and runs on a Raspberry Pi 3B. It communicates with the ODrive motor controllers via CAN bus. ODrive allows us to directly specify the cable forces via the motor currents and keep the cables always under tension. Stay tuned!
—- The student hobby project RopeBot became a research project at TU Dresden: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ifkm/dmt/forschung/projekte/RobeBot?set_language=en
We built a first prototype of the cable driven robot using ODrive.
At the moment we are working on adding more motors and degrees of freedom. Comments and suggestions are welcome 🙂
More updates and source code will follow soon..
We are trying to build an open source cable driven robot. Our aim is to create a customizable system to follow trajectories and control the force with up to 6 degrees of freedom.
Stay tuned!