Dandelion Tip-Over manual and Auto-Balance maneuvers first tests..

As part of the Dandelion Rover development, we have to recover the robot from a tip over since by design it have that feature.
By design, Dandelion can be drive it in any position since it don't have a "top" or "bottom", both sides are the same, meaning that it is "reversible"...But in reality it have a "preferred" side, mainly due to the internal components layout and a little because of the camera (that issue can be handled by a rotation with the software).

So, we develop a maneuver to recover the preferred side in case of a tip over, here a couple of videos:

The first video was with Dandelion on vacations at the Alfredo Fiebig house as part of his thesis work on the Auto-Balance system.

The videos shows us that the design is correct, Dandelion can be drive it on any side and is also possible to recover it from a tip over to the preferred side.

On the videos we also can see that Dandelion is using a "tail" as a pivot point, this is mainly because the Auto-Balance system is still in develop, here we can see some nice videos about the initial Auto-Balance system that can also perform an automatic side recovery in case of a tip over:

Stay tune for more balancing tests on Dandelion!