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web controllable robots (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:50:38 GMT
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Jim Choate <ravage@ssz!AntiSpam!.com>
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----- Forwarded message from Pedram Amini -----
From: "Pedram Amini" <pamini@tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: web controllable robots
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:27:54 -0500
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way or has any ideas of how I could
implement a web controlled bot. My plan is to sit a web cam on top of a
robot and I want a user to be able to control which way the camera looks via
the web...I think its a pretty interesting idea.
----- End of forwarded message from Pedram Amini -----
I'm working ever so slowly on such a project. I'd hoped to have it done
by now but the folks who were helping me dropped out so I'm doing it solo.
My over-all plan is to have a table-top with a wall around it so the crawler
can't get off. There will be a b/w camera pointed at it (from above) that will
be run into a WebTV board to do the framegrabbing (I'm looking at 5 fps @
320x200 currently). I'm hoping to create a cgi script that will allow users to
write a program (I'm currently looking at nqc) and then xfer it to the bot.
The reason that I chose not to mount the camera on the bot was due to
perspective problems. Since I don't intend to have a home-position or any
similar standard there was no way a user could really get a good idea of the
relationships from an on-board camera. This could create problems in
writing and testing the programs.
So far I've got the bot built, the table located. I need to buy a WebTV and
load SuSE Linux and associated software. As soon as I can relocate the
test equipment on the table (i.e scope, logic analyzer, etc.) to an
alternate location I'll start putting the pieces together. I hope to have a
new rack for the equipment sometime toward the middle of next month. If luck
is with me I'll be done before the new year.
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