I'd like to start a discussion to collect general knowledge of what to do and what not to do when building a two-wheeled self-balancing robot (SBR for short). My hope is that this thread can become a somewhat comprehensive set of guidelines to help beginners and non-beginners build their first balancing robot or achieve a more stable and successful subsequent design. Things that I would like to understand include:
The use of accelerometer and gyroscope to build little robots, such as the self-balancing, requires a math filter in order to merge the signals returned by the … Read more
My second balancing bot built with the help off Kas guide Balancing robot for dummies(http://www.x-firm.com/?page_id=145) that i'm hosting on my server.. The v2 is … Read more
Ok, i started doing some tests with my IMU module. It turns out that, while it is has very low noise while standing still, is suffer greatly from the robot vibration and movements.. Some research was in the need :)
This guys managed to use a gyroscope and an accelerometer combined with kalman filters to obtain a very clean estimation of the board orientation in space. Includes source code and a cool video.
