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Spheron

An omni-directional autonomous spherical rolling robot.

varshith-solipuramVarshith Solipuram
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This project was created on 12/30/2018 and last updated 7 years ago.

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Inspired by BB-8 from Star Wars, this was my attempt to build an autonomous spherical rolling robot.
Simply, a drive unit with two diametrically opposite motors is freely suspended inside a spherical casing and an obstacle avoidance unit on the outside of the casing is coupled to the internal unit via Neodymium magnets. Two ultrasonic ranging sensors mounted at 45° to the tangent will detect obstacles and communicate to the unit inside via a 433MHz radio.

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Spheron_1_nano.ino

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Spheron_1_Uno.ino

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  • 2 × Arduino For the drive unit and the sensor unit.
  • 1 × Voltage regulator
  • 1 × Neodymium Magnets
  • 1 × A spherical casing with a smooth outer surface.
  • 2 × Ultra-Sonic ranging sensors

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