Grande-Illusion

by Gael Colas and Sylvestre Prabakaran, 2nd year students from the French engineering school CentraleSupélec.

Goal : Realization of robotic feet to perform the “Sawing a lady in half illusion”.
A live performance of our system can be seen here: https://youtu.be/Erj_JMS8GrE

This is a “projet innovation” project we led in our 2nd year in CentraleSupélec (2016).
Our supervisors were Hanane Meliani, Laurent Cabaret and Didier Coudray from the LISA Lab.

This project involved :

• Arduino : we used an Arduino board to control the robotic feet ;
• Motion capture : we used a motion capture software to capture the movements of real feet. These angle changes were converted to command for the robotic feet ;
• 3D-modeling : we used SketchUp to design our mechanic system.

This repository gathers all our code and the files we used in our project. Our final report and presentation is at the root (written in French).