The thesis discusses the design and construction of a robotic leg aimed at testing load balancing of a multi-legged robot. Bending moments are calculated. Mechanical parts, power and control subsystems are designed. Servomotors are selected. Inverse kinematics is calculated as the basis for steering the robotic leg. The inverse kinematics is calculated in MatLab program environment using Robotics, Vision and Control library running on a personal computer. Servomotors' positions are being sent via serial communication from personal computer to OpenCM microcontroller which controls the servomotors and reads data about the current loads. The repeatability of the robotic leg's position and the amount of the couple moments in the servomotors were tested.
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