istarendil / maieutic

Maieutic

The Maieutic robot is a fully open-source and 3d printable physical-expermiental platform intended for the study of manipulators kinematic control, artificial vision and reinforcement learning. It is an effort to build a affordable platform for the students in the "Modeling and control of robotic manipulators " course to build their own low-cost model that allows them to continue experiment and learning outside the campus.

Main characteristics

• The morphology of the Maiuetic is a 6-DoF elbow manipulator with sperical wrist.
• The robot is intended to be used with the Robot Operating System (ROS2)
• The main controller board is an ESP32
• The cad files of the system are completely open-source using the FreeCad format
• An URDF descriptor is also available

Demo

• This project is still at an early stage and efforts are being made on the mechanical design.
• Some major changes have been made between the original mechanical structure and the current model.
• You can have a better look of the Maietuc through the following link