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Trashbot

May 6th, 2006 4 comments

Trashbot ThumbnailI had a lot of fun “teaching” a Sony Aibo to find and pick up “trash.” This project uses some rudimentary computer vision, simple tracking, audio location, and neural network classification. Plus, its cute!    Click to continue →

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Robot Simulator

February 1st, 2006 5 comments

Robot Simulator IconThis was a quick and dirty project for a robotics class that I took at Georgia Tech in 2005. In this project, I built a Matlab simulator for testing out some simple obstacle avoidance/navigation code. My hope is that someone uses this a springboard to make a more complete version.    Click to continue →

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PIC PID Micro-Controller

March 14th, 2005 21 comments

PID ThumbDoing this project really turned me on to systems and controls theory. A friend and I implemented a fully functioning PID motor speed and positioning controller onto a PIC MCU. This is a pretty thorough guide to building this very hand robotics peripheral.    Click to continue →