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This is part 2 of my Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) balancing experimentation. I’ve built many robots that use solid state gyros and accelerometers to make them balance - mainly two wheel balancing robot and ball balancing robots. But how can we use physical spinning gyroscopes to stabilise or make robots balance? I’ve built a Control Moment Gyro which uses a solid state IMU to measure the angle of roll of the whole device, and then tilts a physical spinning gyro powered by a brushless motor, so cause a perpendicular force.
Last week’s video about V1 of this project:
CAD and code:
More about Control Moment Gyros:
Thanks to ROBOTIS for the Dynamixel servo: Check out:
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