Students Create a Self-Balancing, Self-Driving Bicycle - Core77
Students Create a Self-Balancing, Self-Driving Bicycle
Way cheaper than a delivery robot
By Rain Noe<br>- May 22
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A group of freshmen at the Olin College of Engineering built this autonomous self-balancing bicycle:
Students Justin, Pia and Arylan designed a spinning "reaction wheel" that sits just fore of the seatpost; a sensor housing sits behind. A drive unit sits further down on the seatpost, and the battery is slung beneath the down tube. The BOM, not counting the bike, came out to about $1,000.
"The system combines embedded control, power electronics, and robotic autonomy to achieve balance, perception, and navigation on a dynamically unstable platform," the team writes.<br>The implications could be huge. While robotics companies are spending a fortune creating bespoke autonomous delivery bots, it would be far cheaper to slap $1,000 of parts on a basket-laden used bicycle.<br>The project is open-source, and the team has posted all of the project's data here.<br>Here's their description of how it all works:
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Ryan Cee
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Or slap $zero on the problem and keep paying a delivery driver.
Oh, that's right, the whole point of these is to threaten delivery drivers to not ask for better wages, not to actually replace an extant, functional, and cheaper system.
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