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[DPRG] Spring Robots
Subject: [DPRG] Spring Robots
From: David
dpa at io.isem.smu.edu
Date: Thu Jan 17 10:08:57 CST 2008
Howdy,
Randy M. Dumse wrote:
>> So I think at this point that late April or May 2008 at the
>> Science Place in conjunction with the Roborama is still the
>> best plan.
>>
>
> There is a lab class forming right now at my university to
> attempt to make a Robomagellan robot with two students.
>
> We took a lot of inspiration from jBot, and Dr. Huff's "Pig".
> The chassis is a Traxxas Truck, but plan 4 wheel drive and
> Ackerman stearing. They have the same IMU sensor as you (dpa)
> use, the 3DM-GX1 from MicroStrain. We have Polaroid sonars, GPS
> modules and Xbee modules for communications. Our (NMI) 'Pod's
> will do the computing. They already bought the equipment
> necessary for up to five robots, but putting it together and
> getting working code is, as you know, a rather large challenge.
>
> I doubt they will succeed in one semester, but it is at least
> worth mentioning the effort has begun and has a slim chance of
> competing in late spring.
>
Excellent!
Perhaps the students will be ready to compete in at least
the first of the exercises, which is basically a "can you turn
your robot on?" type of exercise and is designed to be as
entry level as possible.
The first out door exercise is for the robot to drive off some
distance and turn around and come back --- sort of an out door
version of the DPRG quick trip competition. This is supposed to
be the most basic possible exercise, requiring no sensors ---
could be done with timing alone even without wheel encoders or
odometry.
Hope to see you there!
dpa
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