Robot Charlie
@ December 14, 2009
- Actuators / output devices: pre-modified servos
- Control method: autonomous
- CPU: Blackfin BF537
- Power source: 8x AAA NiMH
- Programming language: C
- Sensors / input devices: Sharp GP2Y0D810Z0F, Maxbotix EZ1, camera
After some testing with Robot Bravo I realized that it would be helpful to have some other sensors to supplement the camera based vision. I built a new platform with two sonar and two IR sensors. Here is video of Charlie operating with only those four sensors. The camera is not used. Now I have a much better platform to dig deeper into vision processing for object detection, navigation, etc.
@ Mon, 2009-12-14 04:24
Nice work, no doubt having
Is that a mouse scroll wheel I see at the back of Charlie?
@ Mon, 2009-12-14 22:44
Yes, the rear caster is a
Yes, the rear caster is a mouse scroll wheel and a safety pin.