Saturday, February 2, 2013

Testing: grab -> lift -> pour

A couple of hours of programming later and we were ready to run a test for grabbing the bottle, lifting it up, pouring liquid and bringing it back to its initial position.

For this, we used:
  1.  a Lego motor that controls the gripper (grab)
  2.  a Lego motor that lifts up/descends the arm
  3.  a Lego motor that rotates the arm (pour)
and 2 Lego touch sensors:
  1. to set the home position of the arm for the rotation
  2. to signal that the bottle has been grabbed

Below, you can find a demo that illustrates the above mentioned steps:


Side note: for now, the pouring process is in "simulation mode" only :)

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