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Discuss general guidelines for self-balancing robots

rogue's picture

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 self-balancing robot building is today an activity that every robot builder can perform with Arduino. Searching in Google for self-balancing robot you can find … Read more
Balances on 2 wheels, Remote Controlled
Using a
  HI guys, This is Balance1, my balancing robot, I built balance1 to demonstrate that a digital controller I had designed in MatLab actually worked in the real … Read more

OK, I have just given up making a balancing robot. Ever.

fritsl's picture

Making a balancing robot - or even dreaming of making one just lost it's appeal.. because I will never make anything like this.,

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Balances on 2 wheels, r/c controlled
Using a
      Well I am not sure I understand the phrase 'time to build' but that would be the time it took me to cut the parts and mount the motors, getting it to … Read more

Cool Balancing Bot

TheGrue's picture

I was sent this cool video of a self balancing Robot. My niece wants me to buid one for her.

DESCRIPTION: This is my second robot, and my second balance-bot. With this robot I try to improve and learn. My goal is simple; understanding. Read more

Some cool documents about Kalman Filter

Nicola's picture

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 :)

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self balancing bot

maneuver's picture
check this Self-balancing robot on instructables. It doesn't stand upright for very long, but it's a very good starting point, IMHO.
So here we are :) I decided to try and build the holy grail of robotics hobbist: a self balancing robot. I've made some research around and i've come to the … Read more