- Mobile Robot Programming Project
This is the course project for Mobile Robot Programming with Professor Zack Butler. The goal of this project is to create a program that controls a Pioneer robot to navigate on a floor and reach a list of waypoints in their given order. The robot will start at one of given 8 locations and has [...]
- Probabilistic Mapping
This is a homework assignment for Mobile Robot Programming. A probabilistic map is built for a simulated pioneer robot using 8 sonar sensors. The sensor model used was just a really simple condition based model. However, more complicated model can be plugged in to deal with noise in the real world. I enjoyed watching the [...]
- Player/Stage
I recently have been working on the AMOS III robot again. AMOS III was built last year to compete in IGVC. I did not participate in last year’s IGVC because I had to do an internship at IBM. And from what I’ve heard, hardware aspects of the robot was in great shape, but software was [...]
- Multi-touch Software Development
Zack is of one my friends in RIT Multi-disciplinary Robotics Club. He came up with this idea one day, that we can utilize a multi-touch display on the glass wall by the door of our club room to do promotion. The first time I saw multi-touch was around a year ago on Microsoft Surface’s website. [...]
- Almost Christmas
It is almost Christmas again. My flight back home is going to be on the 21st, 6am in the morning, 14,000 mileage back and forth. Amos III is wired up with computer, GPS, and phidget. I droved it using joystick remotely through wireless network. Amos III already put a bunch of holes on the walls, [...]
- Amos III is Alive!
Today, Amos III has been wired up and tested successfully. The pneumatic casters arrived this morning during the Freescale Rochester Technology Symposium. Stew welded the support for the casters then touched up the frame and welded the motor mounts. In the evening, motors, tires and casters are all mounted, as well as the base level [...]
- Amos III Progress
As I said in the previous post, Stewart and I have been rebuilding Amos. The welding job for the frame is somewhat completed as of today. I also spent some fun/boring hours in the formula machine shop. The motor mount can be welded tomorrow, which is also about the same time when the pneumatic casters [...]
- Rebuilding Amos
Surprisingly, Amos was probably the best working robot that MDRC has ever made in the history. It has gone through two versions already, Amos and Amos II. Last week, we finally took Amos II apart in order to build Amos III. The robot in the picture is the first version of Amos. It was built [...]
