ROBAI's 7DOF Cyton Robot

[runikovoor]

Starting at under $3,000, Robai Cyton robot arms are perfect for automating light duty tasks. They combine versatile mechanical designs with graphical robot tasking software developed for high-end robots by Energid Technologies. The result is an easy-to-use robotic manipulator for industry, home, entertainment, and research. You can plug it into a PC, configure it, and start work in under 30 minutes.

Humanoid robots with many degrees of freedom like the Cyton can be stronger, avoid collisions, and increase accuracy. More degrees of freedom expand an arm's workspace and make it more powerful, useful, and fail-safe. Cyton robots offer all these features and more.

With seven axes, Robai's Cyton robot arms work like the human arm. Roboticists call robots with more than six axes 'kinematically redundant' . The extra degrees of freedom give fluid motion, better accuracy, and the ability to reach around obstacles. Cyton arms come with graphical control software that makes it easy to take advantage of the extra degrees of freedom by just guiding the gripper using convenient input devices on your PC or over the Internet. Cytons work with Windows, Linux, and Apple computers.











For more information please visit : www.robai.com

[freeloader]

Starting at under $3,000, Robai Cyton robot arms are perfect for automating light duty tasks.

3000 USD ? are u guys shore ... must be 300 USD . I saw Ri too sells Robot ARMs and had bought them for about 200 USD , other than an extra DOF i dont see what extra value is there for 3000 USD(if its not a miss sprint).

[runikovoor]

The important part of the robot is the software that comes along with it. It has an API called ActinSE which makes controlling a 7 DOF arm peice of cake. Below is the description of ActinSE API:

The Actin-SE control software makes control of the Cyton fast and easy. Actin-SE provides multiple optimization strategies for coordinated motion and path planning allowing developers to focus on where the hand or gripper needs to go without worrying about how to move the joints to get there.

Controlling a kinematically redundant arm such as the Cyton is hard. There may be unlimited ways to move the joints to achieve the desired hand motion. Actin-SE solves this problem in an optimal way based on your requirements. It provides an optimized control system that simultaneously avoids joint limits, singularities, and collisions all while minimizing kinetic energy. In addition, multiple optimizations can be cascaded to build extremely powerful control systems in hours, not days or weeks.

Actin-SE provides a professional front-end GUI and an accurate kinematic simulation. It also provides a rich C++ API for programmatically building control strategies for the arm. Combined with Energid's peerless support Actin-SE will ensure your project is a success.

Optimizations Supported:

Joint Limit Avoidance
Singularity Avoidance
Collision Avoidance
Strength Optimization
Accuracy Optimization
Error Recovery

End-effector Constraints:

2D/3D Point Placement
3D Orientation/Pose
Linear Constraint
Center of Mass
Spatial Momentum
Soft Constraints

Actin-SE Key Features:

End-effector control Interactively control end-effector placement directly with a mouse or 3D input device.
Kinematic and dynamic simulation Simulate new tasks, environments, and configurations digitally before applying hardware.
3D visualization Visualize high fidelity robot models. Zoom, change the eyepoint, and change the center of interest.
Record/playback Record end-effector and joint paths for replay.
Movie generation Create high quality AVI movies of the robot in action
Data capture Capture both kinematic and dynamic information during simulation or control. Data can be stored in MATLAB-, Mathematica-, or Excel-compatible formats
Dynamic plotting All diagnostic information that can be captured for export can also be plotted graphically in real time
Network interface Set desired end-effector and joint values remotely over the network through a TCP/IP or Skype interface
Cross-platform support The Actin-SE can be delivered under Linux or Windows



Here are some case studies of applications done with the arm : http://robai.com/php/list_case_study.php?linkid=10

[freeloader]

Im sorry , But this is way too expensive even with software.

At 3000 USD / license cost is like paying to get the software built per license.

[runikovoor]

The arm uses servos by robotis called dynamixel and each dynamixel costs some where between $200 to $279. Have you used a dynamixels?

[lolman_returns]

LOL I guess you are using the RX64s, I worked with AX12+ because I couldnt afford the RX64s :P