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Re: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:28:54 GMT
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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.
However, it is not always obvious how to make transitions between (say) a
beam and a brick. This is not trivial; you should count on doing some
guided projects out of the excellent literature available before you go off
inventing a new kind of AI floating platform. I can promise that you will
enjoy every moment of this 'homework'.
Other, more knowledgeable folks will give you a better answer on the
software side. However, the programmable brick (RCX) is a competent
computer on its own. You design a program in pbFORTH or NQC (reduced
instruction set 'C') or others and transfer it to the RCX via an IR link.
The link works well at a short distance setting or long distance setting.
The program then runs independently. There is an accessory IR remote (like
a TV remote) that lets you send 'messages' to the robot. A message might
select a task or become a variable in a task. My remote works well up to
perhaps 8 or 9 meters. There is a VCR accessory set where the images are
processed in your PC and instructions sent back to the robot ...so I suspect
you can have your PC link within limits, but I don't know enough to explain
that.
And, make sure you can actually purchas an RIS 1.5 as they are hard to find
these days.
You can see a simple example of a lego project on my web site at
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jdkalpin complete with NQC code.
I hope this helps,
Jerry
In lugnet.robotics, Jake Baker writes:
> 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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