Combat Wombat
New Member
Hi,
am very new to all of this and not very electronically minded but have access to electronic engineers at work for explanations but can construct almost anything if I am told what is needed. What I am trying to work out is the construction of a system to move a platform type arrangement from point A to B, sense its arrival, then return to point A, and so on until either a time limit is reached or it runs out of power/switched off.
The platform will be carrying a large weight, say a maximum of approx 1000kilos (yes, 1000) and I envisage it being made out of tube/square steel and riding on car type tyres. Its for a display and we want to avoid rails, cables/pulleys, whinches etc and not require someone to sit there and watch it all day or control it by remote control. We also would like it to have the ability to stop if it senses something in front of it that shouldn't be there, hence the possible use of a commercially available sensor unit/suite to cut the drive power.
What I am curious about, could I also use a small commercially available robot such as the little surveyor robot sold by these folk
**broken link removed**
to drive larger servos to control larger heavier drive motors?
I know its a weird request - Oh, its not for DARPA/similar use, I am, in the wrong country for that and also I only want it to go in a straight line.......so far. Curves or bends are not in the plan until I can prove that it can go straight.
Any suggestions/advice?
Cheers
am very new to all of this and not very electronically minded but have access to electronic engineers at work for explanations but can construct almost anything if I am told what is needed. What I am trying to work out is the construction of a system to move a platform type arrangement from point A to B, sense its arrival, then return to point A, and so on until either a time limit is reached or it runs out of power/switched off.
The platform will be carrying a large weight, say a maximum of approx 1000kilos (yes, 1000) and I envisage it being made out of tube/square steel and riding on car type tyres. Its for a display and we want to avoid rails, cables/pulleys, whinches etc and not require someone to sit there and watch it all day or control it by remote control. We also would like it to have the ability to stop if it senses something in front of it that shouldn't be there, hence the possible use of a commercially available sensor unit/suite to cut the drive power.
What I am curious about, could I also use a small commercially available robot such as the little surveyor robot sold by these folk
**broken link removed**
to drive larger servos to control larger heavier drive motors?
I know its a weird request - Oh, its not for DARPA/similar use, I am, in the wrong country for that and also I only want it to go in a straight line.......so far. Curves or bends are not in the plan until I can prove that it can go straight.
Any suggestions/advice?
Cheers