avatars.report is a trend watching and knowledge authority. Its initial focus is on “Wise Avatar Robotics Technology”, more specifically “Robotic Avatars”, “Embodiment”, “Wise technology”, “Telemanipulation” and underlying “Robot control theory”. The vision is “Everyone can learn robotics”, and the goal is to make (new) knowledge more widely accessible. To achieve this, avatars.report delivers two products.
The first is an interactive webpage with an overview of Avatar-related activities worldwide, which is continuously updated to ensure it provides a complete overview. Members are kept informed about updates through a weekly newsletter.
Connected to the first product, the second product is video-lectures/pencasts to explain concepts in increasing detail. Top-level movies provide an overview of more complex systems and designs, and underlying robotics control concepts are explained in successive movies. The movies are Accessible through a “tech-tree” design web portal. Based on new developments in the field, new lecture material is developed to explain the concepts and underlying principles. DIY at home labs provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge from the lectures and try things out in practice. Also here, members are kept informed about new material through a weekly newsletter.
For the DIY home labs, lab kits need to be developed. These kits should be affordable and of good quality. The kits should be composed of commercially available components as much as possible. In the first phase of avatars.report users will order the components and build the lab setups themselves. Therefore, availability and accessibility of the parts is important. Components that are not commercially available should be easy to produce in small batches (for example, 3D printing or laser cutting. In addition to the hardware, software will be made available. This software should be ready to use and well documented such that users can learn from the software.
In previous projects, a first version of a DIY kit has been developed for telemanipulation control as shown in the image to the right. The setup consists of a haptic setup (a pair in the future), and a software package.
However the DIY kit is not complete yet. Some features still need to be implemented, most importantly, some parts of the controller.
- Dynamics compensation control
- Cogging compensation
- Force control
- (2 telemanipulation controllers)
The goal of this assignment is to develop the necessary control for DIY at home lab for telemanipulation control.