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Master and Slave Control

Does anyone know how to make a master and slave control?

Watch the guy in the background, what he does, the robot imitates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-3inc1iNQ

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May 6, 2008. 3:16 PMJordo says:
I think he had a bunch of potentiometers on the Master arm to correspond to the servos/motors on the slave arm, while the other kid drove the car.
May 6, 2008. 3:17 PMguyfrom7up says:
I think there's a ball under the human arm, and he moves it to move the robot
May 4, 2008. 10:50 AMguyfrom7up says:
I think: THe hand has a bunch of potentiometers on it it goes to a uController The uController tries to make the same resistance or somthing on a servo's potentiometer (controlling the hand and stuff.) The location of the hand works like a mouse.
May 3, 2008. 8:32 PMzachninme says:
You'd use some sort (rotational) position encoder on the model in place of motors/actuators/servos on the robot. But, FYI, this isn't Master/Slave.
May 3, 2008. 3:51 PMGoodhart says:
Two fairly close "bots" are made, one has all its sensors tied into a radio send configuration and one has all its sensors tied into receive. What one does, the other does. The sending unit has no "motor" per se`.
May 3, 2008. 4:55 PMGoodhart says:
It is fairly complex in nature actually.

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