Follow this [README](https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100). It contains the bill of materials, with a link to source the parts, as well as the instructions to 3D print the parts,
and advice if it's your first time printing or if you don't own a 3D printer.
Before assembling, you will first need to configure your motors. To this end, we provide a nice script, so let's first install LeRobot. After configuration, we will also guide you through assembly.
> We use the Command Prompt (cmd) quite a lot. If you are not comfortable using the cmd or want to brush up using the command line you can have a look here: [Command line crash course](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Environment_setup/Command_line)
> Throughout this tutorial you will find videos on how to do the steps, the full video tutorial can be found here: [assembly video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FioA2oeFZ5I).
Designate one bus servo adapter and 6 motors for your leader arm, and similarly the other bus servo adapter and 6 motors for the follower arm. It's convenient to label them and write on each motor if it's for the follower `F` or for the leader `L` and it's ID from 1 to 6 (F1...F6 and L1...L6).
IMPORTANTLY: Now that you have your ports, update the **port** default values of [`SO100RobotConfig`](../lerobot/common/robot_devices/robots/configs.py). You will find something like:
```python
@RobotConfig.register_subclass("so100")
@dataclass
class So100RobotConfig(ManipulatorRobotConfig):
calibration_dir: str = ".cache/calibration/so100"
# `max_relative_target` limits the magnitude of the relative positional target vector for safety purposes.
# Set this to a positive scalar to have the same value for all motors, or a list that is the same length as
Plug your first motor F1 and run this script to set its ID to 1. It will also set its present position to 2048, so expect your motor to rotate. Replace the text after --port to the corresponding follower control board port and run this command in cmd:
> These motors are currently limited. They can take values between 0 and 4096 only, which corresponds to a full turn. They can't turn more than that. 2048 is at the middle of this range, so we can take -2048 steps (180 degrees anticlockwise) and reach the maximum range, or take +2048 steps (180 degrees clockwise) and reach the maximum range. The configuration step also sets the homing offset to 0, so that if you misassembled the arm, you can always update the homing offset to account for a shift up to ± 2048 steps (± 180 degrees).
Follow the video for removing gears. You need to remove the gear for the motors of the leader arm. As a result, you will only use the position encoding of the motor and reduce friction to more easily operate the leader arm.
Follow the video for adding the motor horn. For SO-100, you need to align the holes on the motor horn to the motor spline to be approximately 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:30.
Try to avoid rotating the motor while doing so to keep position 2048 set during configuration. It is especially tricky for the leader motors as it is more sensible without the gears, but it's ok if it's a bit rotated.
Follow the video for assembling the arms. It is important to insert the cables into the motor that is being assembled before you assemble the motor into the arm! Inserting the cables beforehand is much easier than doing this afterward. The first arm should take a bit more than 1 hour to assemble, but once you get used to it, you can do it under 1 hour for the second arm.
Next, you'll need to calibrate your SO-100 robot to ensure that the leader and follower arms have the same position values when they are in the same physical position. This calibration is essential because it allows a neural network trained on one SO-100 robot to work on another.
> Contrarily to step 6 of the [assembly video](https://youtu.be/FioA2oeFZ5I?t=724) which illustrates the auto calibration, we will actually do manual calibration of follower for now.
| 1. Zero position | 2. Rotated position | 3. Rest position |
|---|---|---|
| <imgsrc="../media/so100/follower_zero.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 follower arm zero position"title="SO-100 follower arm zero position"style="width:100%;"> | <imgsrc="../media/so100/follower_rotated.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 follower arm rotated position"title="SO-100 follower arm rotated position"style="width:100%;"> | <imgsrc="../media/so100/follower_rest.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 follower arm rest position"title="SO-100 follower arm rest position"style="width:100%;"> |
Make sure both arms are connected and run this script to launch manual calibration:
Follow step 6 of the [assembly video](https://youtu.be/FioA2oeFZ5I?t=724) which illustrates the manual calibration. You will need to move the leader arm to these positions sequentially:
| 1. Zero position | 2. Rotated position | 3. Rest position |
|---|---|---|
| <imgsrc="../media/so100/leader_zero.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 leader arm zero position"title="SO-100 leader arm zero position"style="width:100%;"> | <imgsrc="../media/so100/leader_rotated.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 leader arm rotated position"title="SO-100 leader arm rotated position"style="width:100%;"> | <imgsrc="../media/so100/leader_rest.webp?raw=true"alt="SO-100 leader arm rest position"title="SO-100 leader arm rest position"style="width:100%;"> |
Follow [this guide to setup your cameras](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/examples/7_get_started_with_real_robot.md#c-add-your-cameras-with-opencvcamera). Then you will be able to display the cameras on your computer while you are teleoperating by running the following code. This is useful to prepare your setup before recording your first dataset.
Once you're familiar with teleoperation, you can record your first dataset with SO-100.
If you want to use the Hugging Face hub features for uploading your dataset and you haven't previously done it, make sure you've logged in using a write-access token, which can be generated from the [Hugging Face settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens):
If you uploaded your dataset to the hub with `--control.push_to_hub=true`, you can [visualize your dataset online](https://huggingface.co/spaces/lerobot/visualize_dataset) by copy pasting your repo id given by:
To train a policy to control your robot, use the [`python lerobot/scripts/train.py`](../lerobot/scripts/train.py) script. A few arguments are required. Here is an example command:
1. We provided the dataset as argument with `--dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/so100_test`.
2. We provided the policy with `policy.type=act`. This loads configurations from [`configuration_act.py`](../lerobot/common/policies/act/configuration_act.py). Importantly, this policy will automatically adapt to the number of motor sates, motor actions and cameras of your robot (e.g. `laptop` and `phone`) which have been saved in your dataset.
4. We provided `device=cuda` since we are training on a Nvidia GPU, but you could use `device=mps` to train on Apple silicon.
5. We provided `wandb.enable=true` to use [Weights and Biases](https://docs.wandb.ai/quickstart) for visualizing training plots. This is optional but if you use it, make sure you are logged in by running `wandb login`.
Training should take several hours. You will find checkpoints in `outputs/train/act_so100_test/checkpoints`.
You can use the `record` function from [`lerobot/scripts/control_robot.py`](../lerobot/scripts/control_robot.py) but with a policy checkpoint as input. For instance, run this command to record 10 evaluation episodes:
1. There is an additional `--control.policy.path` argument which indicates the path to your policy checkpoint with (e.g. `outputs/train/eval_act_so100_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model`). You can also use the model repository if you uploaded a model checkpoint to the hub (e.g. `${HF_USER}/act_so100_test`).
2. The name of dataset begins by `eval` to reflect that you are running inference (e.g. `${HF_USER}/eval_act_so100_test`).
Follow this [previous tutorial](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/examples/7_get_started_with_real_robot.md#4-train-a-policy-on-your-data) for a more in-depth tutorial on controlling real robots with LeRobot.
> If you have any questions or need help, please reach out on Discord in the channel [`#so100-arm`](https://discord.com/channels/1216765309076115607/1237741463832363039).
