Rodney the skateboarding robot :: Robotics

Rodney the skate robotMy project is Rodney, the robot skateboard, targeted at kids who want a coolskateboard accessory, and parents who would most likely buy one for their kids. alikedesigns are a handle-like device with wheels that pulls a skateboard or axial rotation skates, andthe Segway.I have studied these designs, and a brief history of skateboards to recrudesce myunderstanding of how to make my robot work.The first design has a preliminary/reverse options for the motors and is turned byturning the board or paradiddle skates. It is practically just a way to use the skateboard without employ much energy.Segway Human Transporter (HT) seat self-balance because of a technologycalled energising stabilization. Dynamic Stabilization works by using solid-stategyroscopes, inclination of an orbit sensors, high-speed microprocessors, and powerful electric motorsperforming to keep it balanced.The skateboard to begin with in the 50s was conceived as a way to surf on land,whenever at that place was bad surfing weather. It started out as roller skates nailed to a woodenbase. Then a bicycle company in the early 70s strengthened better boards with flexible mounts forthe wheel axis, and thus was born the modern skateboard, with clench tape for moremaneuverability and painted designs and logos on the cigaret of the board.Rodney is a two-part robot, one is the control condition for Rodney and the other isRodney himself, the maneuverable part. The controller consists of humdrum platforms withfour walls of beam pieces. It has a RCX 2.0, and three touch sensors. The Rodney alsoRodneyBeta the skateboarding robothas an RCX 2.0 and four motors in a car-like design. He has beams and panel piecesconnecting the motors in concert for additional stability.Rodney was successful at pushing my skateboard forward, reverse, and eventurning. He could move the skateboard by itself at around 5mph and slightly little withadded weight. The maximum weight that it can hold is about 2lbs. The remote controllerhas a range of around 10fts, and when it is out of range Rodney continues doing the same take to the woods that it was doing previously. I found that sometimes wheels may fall of Rodney,and occasionally he slides out from under my skateboard.I see that the alpha form of Rodney can that at least three forms, one being the