Good Morning everyone,

I worked with my teammates @AF and Ryan Teceidero on the ET-LIOS Project at the UTC from the 17th January to the 04th February. As a short introduction to the project ET-LIOS was initiated regarding the students difficult period. This project is about developing new tools and interfaces to enable a different way of teaching sustainable engineering and future industry. Our part in that project concerned a spider robot The (Hexapod) PhantomX MK III from Trossenrobotics. The robot kit has been previously assembled and set by two other students before us. We continued their work by establishing a proper remote replacing the previous joystick while checking if the walking sequence of the code to implement would work. As a result, we succeeded to control the Hexapod using a Bluetooth module and the app provided by the trossenrobotics website. The final remote solution will be with a joystick.

The second part of our work concerned the motion of the 3D model coordinated by the real robot. As the experience with the virtual twin of Poppy, we try to attend the same results. From this point, we got courses and followed tutorials to understand how to set the FMU (Functional Mockup Unit) and FMI (Functional Mockup Interface) components: connecting an Arduino board to 3Dexperience and exchanging the data through pins. That is way more complicated by parameter and configuring the FMU file, which is a sum of condensed codes. That is a real challenge to develop our virtual twin, but with the help from Dassault Systems Engineers to handle well the CATIA Functional and Logical Design’s environment. Last but not least, we learned a lot about the setting and configuration required to connect and interface virtual with a realistic system. Do not hesitate if you guys have some ideas or recommendations about the topics.

Moreover, the project is now handled by Vincent Mercier, a new student like us working on the project. We want to use the concept with an Arbotix M.

Thanks for reading. Here are some illustrations of our progress and work on the Hexapod. Feel free to ask if you want to know more details about the project. Have a good day.

Anaelle, Lys & Ryan.

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