This has clearly been reduced. I must say, however, that you can get a comm port on the roboard working at 1mbps or more using a prolific or ftdi chip connected to the onboard usb port.
It's a fairly inexpensive solution and you can get a small model like this http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... cts_id/392 to plug directly onto the onboard usb port.
Having said that, I must say Robobuilder - which is a Humanoid very similar to Bioloid in terms of the use of serial communication with the servos - works at 115kbps and it works very well. You are able to explore every feature nicelly.
From what I've read here
http://robosavvy.com/site/index.php?Ite ... m_openwiki I think the biggest impact this might have is when doing movements using S-Curves that may need frequent updating according to the document.
I think it will work well at 115kbps even because the load feedback feature for AX 12s is not really usable (and it's slow) and thus you won't be using the bus for too much feedback.
From what I understand it will be mostly for relaying commands in one way (Roboard -> servos) and there are packets to command multiple servos with one single instruction.
Feedback should be coming from an IMU connected to the SPI or I2C ports and from what I know those work fast
Statistics: Posted by PedroR — Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:22 pm
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