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Very Newbie Question regarding remote control
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:51:59 GMT
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Greetings all,
I am persuing a grad level course in AI agents, and the course requires that
I to do a project. One idea I have is to create a robot and have it do something
AI-ish. Since I'm not very adept with hardware, using a Mindstorms robot for
this seems ideal.
Before I pay $200 for the kit (which I might anyway...), I wanted an answer
to the following question. I cannot find an answer on the web, so I thought
I would just go ahead and ask here.
What I want to do is establish a system where the agent AI is hosted by a PC
(so I can write it in ruby or whatever without limitations); the robot
communicates remotely (no wires) it's sensory information to the PC, and
then the PC sends remote commands to control the robot.
Therefore, my question is: Is this possible to set up? If so, is it
relatively easy? I'm good with software, so its mainly the hw issue I have
questions about.
I thank you all for your patience and responses,
- Jake Baker
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| Mechanically, LEGO is beautiful to work with. The components are well selected for rapid prototyping. For example, you will find that the hole spacing in the beams and the center-to-center distances of the gears ...seem to work well together. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have only worked with the RCX under windows 98, and then mostly using NQC (Not Quite C, a nice programming language/environment supplied by David Baum)but here is my two cents. The PC communicates with the RCX brick via an infrared tower (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control
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| (...) Well, the RCX (the computer "brick" that comes with the $200 Mindstorms set) has Infrared communications with the PC. The amount of RAM in the RCX is rather limited for fancy AI stuff - but plenty for taking simple commands *from* the AI (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control
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| (...) that (...) something (...) for (...) PC (...) Good man :) Thats what we like more AI projects on Lego Mindstorms, I myself am finishing a graduate degree off, with my Dissertation centred around Lego mindstorms It's greate almost half my (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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