IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive
IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive
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Operating at force/power/thermal limits in electrically-actuated commercial legged robots - Avik De
Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop:
From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation
Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation
Abstract:
Our goal, from early days, has been to create agile, versatile, and inexpensive legged robots. The first two of these criteria requires high force, power density, high control bandwidth, as well as some mechanism to rapidly sense external forces acting on the joints. The last criterion limits the palette of options for the drivetrain elements as well as the sensing mechanism. First optimizing for agility, we developed a family of agile direct-drive legged robots at the 1-6kg size range for research at UPenn [1]. For the design of the Ghost Robotics Vision, we retained the previous design criteria, but heavily weighted robot endurance (efficiency). While the design principles for these quite different quadruped designs were quite similar, they were still able to meet their individual goals.
These evolving high-level objectives for research and commercial robots have guided (discrete) motor and drivetrain component selection over the years. On the motor front, brushless DC motors are a relatively obvious choice, but on the drivetrain front, spur/planetary gearboxes, strain wave gearing, series-elastic actuation all present different advantages and disadvantages with respect to the criteria listed above. After selecting the types of components in the drivetrain, we must still optimize the continuous robot design parameters to balance several objectives. To make this problem tractable, we ""fix"" the robot task and the controller using simplified models and past data. To manage the dimensionality of the design space, we either examine slices of this space, or employ a nonlinear optimization algorithm. We have applied both approaches in applications to quadruped design as well as the design of flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles [2].
References:
[1] Kenneally, Gavin, Avik De, and Daniel E. Koditschek. ""Design principles for a family of direct-drive legged robots."" IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1.2 (2016): 900-907.
[2] De, Avik, and Robert J. Wood. ""Template-Based Optimal Robot Design with Application to Passive-Dynamic Underactuated Flapping."" 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2020.
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Modelling BLDC motors for the design of lightweight robotic systems: common mistakes - Elliot Rouse
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: A key step in the development of lightweight, high performance robotic systems is the modeling and selection of permanent magnet brushless direct current (BLDC) electric motors. Typical...
Speed Reducers: The Fundamental Element of Robot Performance - Jack Schorsch
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: Despite the relatively slow pace of adoption of new actuation technologies for robotic systems, new robotics applications will typically include a review of the fundamental choices of t...
Small but mighty - designing actuators for dynamic human robot interactions - Jon Sensinger
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: Many dynamic human-robot interactions require actuators that can generate large torques and speeds in a small, lightweight package. These goals are similar to many other actuator applic...
Versatile human centered robots with ball screw electric actuators - Luis Sentis
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation
Electronics and software for high performance motor drives for robotics: ODrive - Oskar Weigl
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: Basic drives for brushless motors can be inexpensive, but advanced drives that are suitable for robotics have historically been very expensive, leaving many companies, hobbyists and res...
High performance interaction control utilizing multiple sensors - Sehoon Oh
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: As the application of the robot is expanded to various area, the ability of the robot to sense and control the interactive force has become significant. A number of sensors and mechanis...
How Quasi Direct Drive Actuators Can Help in Human Like Bipedal Locomotion - Siavash Rezazadeh
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: Direct-drive and quasi-direct-drive actuators have properties such as backdrivability, ability of direct force and impedance control, and energy regeneration that can makes them attract...
Compact Gearboxes for Modern Robotics - Tom Verstraten
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: High torques and high accuracy are typical design requirements for robots. To meet these requirements, designers usually pair high-speed electrical motors with high-ratio gearboxes. The...
Actuation concepts for cost effective robotics - Wesley Roozing
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: Despite significant progress in the capabilities of robots, relatively little progress has been made in making them cost-effective enough for widespread adoption by society. Simply redu...
Bilateral Drive Gear : a Highly Backdrivable Reduction Gearbox for Robotics - Yasutaka Fujimoto
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: In collaborative robots and assist robots, safety must be guaranteed during contact with humans. However, the conventional reduction gearbox has low backdrivability, and when the robot ...
Drive trains design and low level joint control of JAXON series - Kunio Kojima
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Talk from the IROS 2021 workshop: From gears to direct drive: Recent trends and opportunities in actuation Website: www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/gears-direct-drive-recent-trends-and-opportunities-actuation Abstract: We focus on how to design drive-trains and overall structures of robots in terms of mass, heating, and impacts. Robots, which are multi-degree-of-freedom systems and transformable, have...

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @moses5407
    @moses5407 2 місяці тому

    is this available? are design files available?

  • @kevinamundsen7646
    @kevinamundsen7646 11 місяців тому

    Question: As you may know, when a Wye BLDC motor is driven, at any given instant, only 2 phases are driven and the 3rd phase is open-circuited. Having determined the torque constant using the method in this video, would the resultant actual torque (as measured) be represented by the RMS current for a single phase, or for the RMS current in the two driven phases added together, or for the RMS current on all three phases added together?

    • @rouse217
      @rouse217 Місяць тому

      Hi @kevin, sorry the delayed reply, somehow I missed this. I don't agree that a wye wound motor only has two phases energized; this is true for block / trapezoidal commutation, but not field oriented control. Most BLDC drives these days operate using FOC, and this is particularly important for high pole count motors, which would have substantial d-axis current if driven using trapezoidal commutation. In FOC, there will be only three specific angles where only two phases are energized. Does this answer your question?

  • @user-rk9zx3lt8k
    @user-rk9zx3lt8k Рік тому

    yes, I think one of the reason about less contribution is the source code is combination among communication protocol, control theory , trajectory algorithm, and even advanced usage of c++

  • @user-rk9zx3lt8k
    @user-rk9zx3lt8k Рік тому

    you are ownsome.!!!!!!

  • @taesuyoon
    @taesuyoon Рік тому

    what does the 'N' means at 19:11 ??

  • @djwillx974
    @djwillx974 Рік тому

    It's a fantastic job that you maked with odrive 3.6 but it's damage that you have closed the source with the new odrive pro. It's also a big problem that you doesn't include a brake circuit. Price is becoming too expensive..... All that maked the success of the odrive 3.6 is going to disappear because you want to stop its building. Odrive S1 is better than odrive pro for most of people. However, i think that you should have made a new version of odrive 3.6 by adding different improvment and the most important: To let it open source. Now, odrive is becoming a standard commercial board....with high price.... You said that one reason that you maked odrive was the price of existence solution. Today, AC motor with aasd driver is quite the same price than odrive + motor + encoder + power supply + cable and a lot of works ....... So , is it odrive still a cheap solution for driving in position a motor today ? I'm not sure.....

  • @paulespinosa102
    @paulespinosa102 Рік тому

    where can i get the paper "challenges in modeling and analysis of BLDC motors for design of lightweigth robotics systems" ?

  • @glodigit
    @glodigit Рік тому

    Very insightful

  • @raymondzhao9557
    @raymondzhao9557 Рік тому

    so you are the father of ODrive?

  • @jamesmatheson9624
    @jamesmatheson9624 Рік тому

    very impressive

  • @rickkubbenga5904
    @rickkubbenga5904 Рік тому

    Amazing product! I'm just getting into foc and I would like to learn more by using it. I do have a 3d printer but I dont use it alot so spending a few honderd bucks just for learning is a bit much.. I'd like to decide that after I know enough about it I did order a storm32 3 axis gimbal controller with 3 cheap motors and I'm hoping to get that to work with odrive. Think it can be done?

  • @glenswada
    @glenswada Рік тому

    Great stuff, thank you.

  • @BarkanUgurlu
    @BarkanUgurlu Рік тому

    Many thanks Oscar. Maybe I missed it but what is the current loop sampling rate?

  • @ultrainstinct1181
    @ultrainstinct1181 Рік тому

    Hey bro,over been struggling for a year straight to create a ffb SIM wheel using the odrive in 2ways. 1: directly 2: open ffb using the disco board. And to no avail have I conquered it. Could you maybe help?!

  • @jtreg
    @jtreg Рік тому

    Fantastic work Oskar, such an achievement, thank you.

  • @waksQam
    @waksQam 2 роки тому

    Hi.. can use this driver for any kind of type brushless motor?

  • @BarkanUgurlu
    @BarkanUgurlu 2 роки тому

    Excellent work from Prof. Fujimoto. Thank you for the informative talk

  • @joereyes8835
    @joereyes8835 2 роки тому

    Hi I am wander if it's possible to run 2 motors simultaneously with a potentiometer, it would be nice for my project, let me know if. Thanks

  • @damiandanev9271
    @damiandanev9271 2 роки тому

    Price is 200 EURO tho?

    • @harjoat
      @harjoat 2 роки тому

      Still cheaper than the alternatives and the man spent countless hours developing it, can't exactly expect him to give it away...

  • @alexcweiner
    @alexcweiner 2 роки тому

    Wow!

  • @davidnilsson5721
    @davidnilsson5721 2 роки тому

    Great presentation! Would you mind specifying the backlash of the prototypes shown in the end? Is this a viable option for consumer 3D prints?

  • @luckyshadowtux
    @luckyshadowtux 2 роки тому

    Very informative

  • @simonlaker2139
    @simonlaker2139 2 роки тому

    Thanks Oscar. Can't wait for the version 4. It would be great if in your docs you had a examples on how to implement bldc linear motor. I personally have been trying to do this and have had fantastic support from Tom Owen. I'm a visual person and would love examples with video and photos. Once I get my project I will share. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year year and let's hope 2022 is a productive one.