I want to control multiple robots using my laptop. Robots do not have intelligence, they are sending sensor values to PC which computes the sensors values and sends back result to robots.(Centralized control of robots using PC ). Robots are communicating with PC through serial communication using Zigbee mudule. Problem: How to make & ...
What books/blogs/podcasts etc... discuss patterns and best practices for designing software systems that interact with custom hardware and robotics? I am particularly interested in any books that would discuss strategies for writing a program that has to orchestrate and coordinate actions between several different custom hardware and rob...
I'm on the FIRST robotics team at my high school, and we are working on developing a kiwi drive robot, where there are three omni wheels mounted in a equilateral triangle configuration, like this: The problem is programming the robot to drive the motors such that that the robot moves in the direction of a given joystick input. For exa...
Hello, I would like to get some advice about my graduation thesis. The professor has already gave me some basic guidelines and I have two weeks to decide. My graduation thesis should be coding "something" for the NAO robot. The "something" should be coded using the Silverlight technology. Now I just need to decide on what the "somethi...
Hi, I was given a Sanyo #B00224 4 wire stepper motor, and for the life of me cannot determine the drive sequence, e.g. what order to power the coils and in which direction. As far as I can tell it is a bi polar stepper motor and should be drive-able with: Winding 1a 1100110011001100110011001 Winding 1b 0011001100110011001100110 W...
I am doing a Neural Network project as my final year undergraduate project. The idea of the project : A very simple robot with 2 motors, and two ir and bump sensors will traverse a environment with the use of a Neural Network which is in a computer. The main requirement is to observe possibly with a suitable GUI the learning process an...
I want to experiment with guiding an RC car via my laptop using bluetooth and an X10 camera to snap the pictures. Basically I want to create the DARPA not so grand challenge of guiding my RC car around the house and avoiding obstacles and teaching it how to navigate. Not terribly practical but fun to mess with. Any suggestions on book...
What should someone study at university level if he/she wants to get into robotics and build robotics? So far 'Mechatronics' seems to be the field I'm looking for? I looked at a few plain 'robotics' courses but they seem to be only about the electrical and computer work, and don't include any details on building the mechanical components...