Soft robotic spine

[LDF]

I've chosen modern, graphite-composite paintball tanks since they meet enough criteria to make them good candidate for energy storage in a pneumatic powered robot.

The other options are too heavy or potentially unsafe (electric air pump/liquid nitrogen/air ).

http://www.ninjapaintball.com/tanks



You can attach multiple tanks to a robot's frame to match its energy needs.

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So, one design consideration will be to make the robot's 'frame' large/long enough to accommodate extra/larger tanks as needed.

[Maecer]

I'm sure you could possibly fill these tanks on your own too. Scaling the body up will be difficult, because the larger you go, the more tanks you need, so gotta be careful

[Maecer]

I'll be posting this link on the other active robot topics. For your consideration: Poppy

https://www.poppy-project.org/en/

Completely open source. Even the tablet app. I'm thinking that I might start here and build off that project.

Website I found her on:

https://www.intorobotics.com/homemade-o ... -examples/

[SeanSteel]

See my sketch

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IMUs would provide sensor feedback to calculated positions and angles based on expansion from soft actuators. These values would be compared, and the AI would adjust the soft actuators until the IMUs' position is true to the desired end state.

I've had bad luck if I rely on more than 1 IMU. They drift really bad. take a look at my pics, they seem like your sketch? No?


vid of skeleton in action...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUIr27Hz1U