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Re: Possible Project here at RIT =)
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:31:00 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Andrew Phelps) wrote:
> Just to kick around some ideas --
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> A friend (Jeff Battisti (sp?)) and I are kicking around the idea of getting
> a student group together to make an exploratory mapper 'bot using the
> Mindstorms kit and either nqc of the Java bindings...
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> What we want is a machine that will, essentially, figure out its
> surroundings, relay this information to the IR tower, which will put in into
> memory spaces, from which a Java program will read the data, and, through
> the EAI, use the writeVrmlFromString function to actively update a VRML
> scene with the info, creating the display to the user. Neat huh?
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> Anyway, we are jsut in the planning stages, thinking about designing the
> bot, thinkg about whether to use nqc, and use the JNI to get java and C
> talking or if the Java bindings have enough for us to do what we need...
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> we'll likely start with a stationary robot and (hopefully) a proximity
> sensor, such that we can have the bot rotate,scan,rotate,scan and compile
> the data into a yes/no object system and create blocks a certian hight for
> each scan (distancing the clocks from the camera based on proximity such
> that the camera in the VRML scene is at 0,0 as is the bot...accounting for
> the size of the bot should be fun =). Then it could rescan new areas, create
> additional VRML, update the scene, and keep going.
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> Anyway, this sounded fun to me, thought I'd see if anyone has done something
> similar, in searching for suitable documentation of issues, and just helpful
> advice in general. The eventual goal is to showcase one of the benefits of
> 3D technology, to visualize at a distance what (in theory) cannot be locally
> explored (although obviously we are not sending our little lego beast
> anywhere that is toxic or otherwise hazardous...yet...<g>)
>
> Thanks for reading, ideas appreciated,
Howdy Andy (and everyone else),
FWIW, I've _just_ completed a project very similar to this.
There's all kinds of info on it at:
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/jkp2866/cpsc643/explorerbot.html
including source and pictures.
Feel free to rip (cites would be nice) whatever you want and
make it better. I know there are a lot of ways it can be
improved (as mentioned in the report).
Let us/me know how it goes.
jack
j-perdue@tamu.edu
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/jkp2866/
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