Walking Robot

Description 

• Abstract

The four-legged walking robot is able to move naturally because of its limbs, which have two joints. These limbs are laser cut and attached using erector construction kits. The robot runs using eight servo motors, which allows a lot more motion in different angles and different planes. The purpose of this is to get a more realistic walking motion like a quadruped.  The robot can be controlled using a joystick, but can also be controlled autonomously using an ultrasonic sensor.  All of these sensors were put on the body of the robot which was a circular shape. On this circular shape you could find the arduino with the circuit attached to the circuit board and the lower layer held the power source, which was the batteries. The eight servo matters motors are also connected in the circuit in order to be programmed in sync with everything else that is going on in the circuit. The robot is programmed so that when the robot detects an obstruction using the ultrasonic sensor, it will stop, turn out of the way of the obstruction and then continue to walk. This is important because as it operates by itself and will not break itself by running into a wall or solid structure that would destroy the robot.  The robot also features padding on its “feet” for added friction--similar to paws on an animal or the outsole on shoes. This allowed the robot to have functional capabilities on slippery surfaces such as the floor that the in class demo was on. These shoes are on the robot legs which pivot in order to cause the walking motion similar to a animals walking as the leg pivots the and the legs move in simultaneous motion of front leg back leg. The front leg on the right side moves as the back leg on the left side moves.