The Dingo | A Low Cost, Open-Source Robot Quadruped
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- This video details the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robot quadruped designed and built by:
Alexander Calvert / calvert-alex
Nathan Ferguson / nathan-ferguson1
The Dingo was created as a capstone engineering project for the Bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University.
This video was created as part of the project's formal assessment and hence has been framed in a manner to suit those requirements, however, it gives a good overview of the whole project and what was achieved.
Code for the Dingo:
github.com/Yerbert/DingoQuadr...
3d CAD: (Solidworks)
grabcad.com/library/dingo-rob...
Total cost is ~$1300 AUD. Full BOM can be found in the GitHub
Facebook Group for the project:
/ 1244354326278347
Special thanks to the open-source designs that helped inspire aspects of this project:
- Stanford Pupper V1: pupper.readthedocs.io/en/late...
- Stanford Pupper V2: pupper-independent-study.read...
- Notspot: github.com/lnotspotl/notspot_...
- SpotMicro: www.thingiverse.com/thing:344..., spot-mini-mini.readthedocs.io...
- Nova SM3: novaspotmicro.com/
- Mini Pupper: minipupperdocs.readthedocs.io...
- Kangal: • Diy Robot Dog : Kangal
If you would like to reach out to me feel free to email me at:
natheferguson@gmail.com
What amazing robots. They still feel a bit robotic, so there's room for improvement. I'm just blown away at how human they look when talking.
that took a humorous turn...
Still no black robot
@@zaidakhtar3093 yes there are lol.
You legend
😂😂
This is the best quadruped that I've seen in years and it's OpenSource!! It will improve with the community's work, this is amazing!
Thank you!
Is this the best??? Really??
errr ok
@@raguavivanaah
All jokes for the somewhat rehearsed presentations aside (that by the way greatly handle the amount of details and were professionally talked through and produced), congratulations on this amazing robotic platform and thoughtful details. Flipping the fans, carrying handle, emergency stop, simultaneously simulating while operating the robot, just three servos per leg, expandability.. it just blows my mind how many things you have achieved. Well done!
Thankyou very much!
@@nathanferguson6248 No dig at you guys, but you might want to consider hiring a talent to do the presentation next time.
You're obviously amazing developers for this product, but there are other people who I bet will be just as amazing presenting it to the public.
This was made primarily for a university assessment and the video was uploaded here as an extra. If we got someone else to present we would fail the assesment😂
@@nathanferguson6248 Well that makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining. In that case, you guys totally crushed it. Kudos!
Never trust a skinny cook; or an engineer who isn't socially awkward.
Thank you for all your supporters and for your hard-work to make this available to everyone
Dual motor limb leg design is absolutely brilliant . Good works guys .
I don't know much about robotics, but it's cool to see you guys filling a niche for student researchers. Great work, and love how detailed you are about specs and limitations!
Thank you! This is by far the best (low cost) open source quadruped I have seen to date. Just because a robotic platform is low cost doesn't mean it has to skimp on software features. Oddly enough I have been cobbling together various open source ideas into something that can actually run ROS Noetic with simulation, trainability and firmware extensibility in mind. IMO there's two main camps in robotic design which are the mechanical and computational aspects and this project didn't skimp on either. Wonderfully executed, thank you so much!!
This is really impressive. Great work guys.
I appreciate you keeping this thing a reasonable size and made from smashable materials. Excellent work on the robot bits too!
Excellent job! I'm excited not only for this initial release, but all subsequent releases in the open-hardware community built on this fantastic platform. Great job team, and thank you for supporting open hardware.
Simply awesome, exactly what i was looking for since years. Many thanks for Sharing.
I am years old
Thankyou!
You did a great work! I'm pretty sure it's gonna inspire a lot of people and be used as a learning framework. Thank you.
Congrats on a brilliant project and a well-produced presentation! This is some inspiring work, I hope you’re recognised accordingly both academically and professionally.
What a great looking build!! Now I have another project that I absolutely don't have time for LOL. That being said, I've already downloaded the CAD and cloned the repo so we'll see where it goes. Congrats Alexander and Nathan on knocking it out of the park on your studies and publishing your work. This is so much more accessible than the whitepaper, tucked away in some some conference proceedings, of old. Contribution to the art and science achieved!!
This is amazing, I can't wait to see a larger one with a bigger carry capacity once it is worked out in the future!
I still believe in a future with farmer robot dogs
This project is awesome and it would be so cool if a community built up around it. I can imagine people contributing sdks, add-ons for things like more weight capacity, self re-charging, etc. Nice job!
Such a fascinating robotic project. I'm impressed by the leg linkage design.
"Boston Dynamics wowed the world with the first commercially available robot dog, Spot."
Sony AIBO enters the chat
Heh, yeah, they forgot the key detail of "industrial robot dog"
@@error.418 I just realized AIBO probably came out before they were born
@@timaidley7801 Sure did! Although Sony tried to be hostile to tinkerers for the first couple years. They filed a DMCA complaint against people who had open sourced software for it back in 2001. Luckily they backpedaled, but oof. Nice to see open-source first mentality.
Well done! That really is a big contribution to the OS Robotics community. It even looks cool!
Well done Nathan and Alex!
Great work team, awesome contribution to the open source community.
Truly amazing product, thank you for making it open source and all the best for your future!
You guys are amazing. Thank you for making this available to us.
This is amazing! I would love a build guide if possible and a further breakdown of the costs.
Thankyou! Unfortunately, there won't be any more videos on this project because we have handed it to the next students to work on as we have graduated, however, I've added the bill of materials and cost breakdown to the GitHub repo now.
@@nathanferguson6248 real quick question does the BoM have any parts drawings or something?
@@nathanferguson6248imho you guys should consider expanding into the research/academic field after such an awsome feat ❤
@BOA2 do you have interest in diving more in here? I do as well.
I'd like to start to 3D print the parts
@nathanferguson6248
Any tips on finding the instructions for 3D printing the parts. Do you model files already stl exported with material instructions anywhere you could place, or I didn't find them so far.
the BOM is wonderful there which is nice for all the other components.
@@nathanferguson6248 paper launch. "We made this great thing!" someone asks "great can i learn anything more" response "Nope sorry we dropped it" lol
Nicely done! Thanks for making all those files available!
Great work guys! This is better than the alternative out there and it's open source. Simply incredible! Thank you!
That's some really neat design, I love the fact that you used off the shelf parts.
Thank you so much for releasing this project. I’ve started mine and it’s early stages but can’t wait to get it assembled and start exploring the software side of this. The idea that anyone can download the CAD files, 3D print, order a few parts and start working on this is incredible. Plus expanding would be easy since you can quickly and easily make your own top plates. The design of the servo carries and inboard dual servos with the linkage is equally impressive. Thank you so much!
Awesome! Excited to hear how it goes
@@nathanferguson6248 the one question I have is about the shoulder carriers. In the CAD there’s a heat insert on the side without the servo horn, but no bolt. Is there supposed to be a bolt that threads into there to support the opposite side of that carriage? If so there is a gap is that gap intended to have a spacer? Or is it just held in position directly by the servo horn on the opposite side? Also I agree with others this project needs a community. Facebook group, forums, or discord something to allow all of us to communicate about builds, enhancements, and questions. Again thank you so much.
@@kdemotorsports You are right, there should be an M4 x16mm (or it may be 20mm I can't remember atm) bold that goes through here, I may have neglected to add it to the model, but it should screw into an M4 heat set inset that is mounted in the motor hub on the other side. THis should be tightened enough to provide a solid pivot point but not enough to provide lateral force. Thread-locking glue is essential here. Not a great part of the design tbh I'm sure it could be improved.
@@nathanferguson6248hey! You guys have any plans for a open source humanoid robot project?
Great project! I love the fact you not only thought of the higher principles (keeping the weight off the legs - much like on an off-load buggy or F1 car you take the brakes (weight) inboard and make the wheels as light as possible to be able to react faster) but also the smaller principles, ease of use, access to ports, use of magnets to make parts easy to move and accessible, and safety with the cut-off switch (also does anyone actually code in Asimovs 3 laws of robotics so they cant kill us? or do they forget or just assume someone else puts them in there?!?!?) - its often the little touches that make a great design, well done and congrats
You have indeed done something significant. Excellent work.
Awesome project, a vlog during the dev process would've been a gold mine of details for students.
Great work fellas! Dingo is the perfect name for it too
Outstanding work gentlemen. Sure to be used by many going forward.
Very impressive design. Nice work!
Outstanding! Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing this.
Awesome work guys! Genuinely interested how this evolves in the future. :)
Open source is awesome. Well done 👍 ...... Good work 🙂
Open source the future! Love it, great work people!
Great job fellas, amazing use of the tools available.
amazing work! and good on yous for open sourcing it :) cheers from UoN
WOW! Great job guys!!! Amazing project.
Applause! Applause! Plenty of optimization and flexibility. Those leg movement optimizations are fascinating.
Nice work guys and thanks for sharing the project!
This is some cool stuff guys. Well done!
I am a bad sci fi writer, because I did NOT see open-source robots coming. Great job, folks!
open source robots have been around for decades now... that's not to detract from their work, that's mostly to drive home the point that, yeah... you're out of touch.
Thank you for releasing your files publicly!
Thats a beautiful machine. Nice job guys
i hope later on this project wont die nice work , GOOD JOB
Awesome and good job. This needs more attention!
Incredible engineering guys! Well done 👏
Impressed man!! Amazing Work.
looks awesome, looking forward to tinkering with this
what an amazing step on democratizing robotics research and usage
amazing feat! 👏👏👏
this is such a big step forwards. Great work!
I'm impressed. And thankful for the YT algo to have pushed this vid to my stream.
That was great! Nice work.
That gazebo addition is a nice bonus also.
Cool stuff..Giving Clearpath Robotics and others a bump..We would love to see this enter the commercial markets for end-users to utilize.Great work Alexander and Nathan!💪🙏..The Mining industry are now seeing the importance or Robotics to use in underground environment and seeing varying products entering the Industry turns heads wit WOW..This product has ptential to bid there too!
You are joking right? This thing cannot even walk
That is a great little robot! Well done
That's really nice! The high entry cost is what kept me away from dog robots. The other researchers in my lab are gonna love this
I liked the name, even more for the projects... proud to be a Monash
Some people talk, you guys do. Well done and thank you.
They did a great job designing the Dingo.
Amazing work ! Gg to the team ❤
Amazing accomplishment! I can tell you put in a lot of work into this, and really appreciate when work like this is available for others to use as well. As a robotics software engineer that's worked on tracking and SLAM I would worry about a raspberry pi having enough compute to be useful for robotics algorithms, and I didn't hear anything about sensors to understand the environment. This is definitely a great start point though for others to build on, great work!
I was already thinking about adding cheap sonar to the front of mine. All kinds of possibilities.
Great work, guys. I hope your linkedin is on fire right now.
Awesome work fellas, that's really cool!
Nice Work!!!! Very Impressive
Thanks for share your work. I hope build this robot in my university, looks very impressive 👏
Great Job! I’ve followed a few builders (x-robots for one) your design looks accessible I think 👍👍
Totally grabbing one of these!
very interesting "product", would love to see some more about it in the future, especially how it performs in the wild, if they keep their promise of a 1500$ price point im definetly getting one
Pretty cool, subbed for more videos and updates on this.
looking good, cant wait to see whats next
Great work!!🎉
Impressive, thanks for sharing!
Amazing work!
Awesome, just found my next project, I have to build this.
Nice work guys 👍 I love the open-sourced design as well as the controller code. Can't wait to see what the DIY community builds on top of this project.
Thankyou! And thankyou for your own Notspot code, it was instrumental in getting our Gazebo simulation working.
@@nathanferguson6248 The simulation bit is what open-source robots from the past have lacked, usually leaving it entirely to the user. Was great to see you take on that step.
That sht's dingo! Congrats guys!
Awesome work, this looks great! Are the servos position, velocity or torque controllable? By the way, Michael and I were in the same lab when we were PhD students, so it was was a nice surprise to hear his name at the end there! I’m happy to see he’s still working on cool stuff.
Hi James, Nathan pointed me to this comment - small world! Hope all is well! Think these are just position controlled, but fast enough to make it slightly less noticeable.
Great work guys. This will speed up work on walking robots.
Awesome!! Great work
Incredible work
Bill of materials: $300 of printable parts, $100 for servos and $1100 for the rpi
😂 Ouch, but too true 😂
awesome work lads!
while i cant think of anything useful to do with that thing, i am a fan of the engineering and opensourceness of it! gj guys! ;)
then I guess you're not in a robotics class. this is designed to teach robotics to students.
@@error.418 very true, no robotics class for me. :)
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Well done. I totally want one!
Fabulous work, well presented. I wish you both the best in your future edeavours. Can't wait to see how AI could be used to control a Dingo for simple tasks. (e..g simple security guard type of stuff). It's interesting how you only managed 25 minutes of active motion. That might be enough for a lap or two around a building! Where are the areas that you'd work on increasing the efficiency of the motors used?
Super cool! Well done.
Awesome job guys
Amazing work! Would love to make my own someday
Super cool! I could see some interesting cyber security experiments with this thing.
Congratulations! This is really useful.
Awesome work this is so cool!!
Awesome project
Well done guys.
This is the first robot video that I have watched, that got me excited to buy a quadruped robot.
Will the Dingo be available for sale, as a kit or pre-built?
With a proper side-vented cover on the top, can it operate in light rain?
How about a transparent plastic "raincoat" that slips/zips over the body and legs?
Have you considered a Google Blockly programming interface, for use in elementary and middle schools?
Hoping to see a long list of GUI interfaces, plug-ins, and accessories, developed for the Dingo.
You guys have turned my dream into reality. ❤❤❤❤