Roboticsprogramming101
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The document provides an overview of building Java robots, detailing components such as sensors, motors, and microcontrollers necessary for robotics. It discusses programming robots using APIs and includes examples of various robotic platforms and their costs. The author emphasizes starting with basic robots and gradually incorporating more complex features like speech and vision.
Roboticsprogramming101
- 2. About MeFirst Book – The Definitive Guide To Building Java Robots, 2006 ApressWeb & Java ConsultantSmall Business Owner – Web & Mobile Application Development (CodeGin LLC)Speaking at OSCON Java 2011
- 3. What’s a Robot?What’s the first thing that comes to mind???
- 5. Asimo?
- 6. Packbot
- 8. Is This A Robot?Is This A Robot?
- 9. How do you go from this?
- 10. Simple 4 Legged Robot
- 11. Big Dog
- 12. How Do Get From Here There?TimeBetter SensorsBetter MotorsFaster ComputersEventually… Money or wait until price comes down.
- 13. Just About All Robots Have:Motion Control (Actuators, Servos, Motors, Etc.)Sensors (GPS, Compass, Sonar, Laser, Vision, Audio)Computers (Stand-Alone or Clusters)
- 14. Microcontrollers ~ $50BASIC Stamp or Arduino
- 15. Servo Controllers ~ $40
- 17. Motors & Chassis ~ $25 - $1,000
- 18. Compass ~ $30
- 19. Sonar ~ $30
- 20. Where do you start?(Show Robot Parts)
- 21. You have to start somewhere!
- 22. Parallax BOE-Bot ~ $150
- 23. Lynxmotion – Biped ~ $800
- 24. Feynman Jr 2 ~ $1,500
- 25. How do you Program a Robot?
- 26. Volunteers?To Be A Robot & Robot Brain?
- 27. You’re A RobotCompass2 SonarsTwo Wheels
- 28. What is this robot going to do?Move Around Room, Get Something, Bring it Back?
- 29. How do you code this?
- 30. Robotics API – Part 1ScottsBots Robot APIJNI Layer (Comm, Sound, Vision)Microcontroller Code
- 31. Robotics API – Part 2COMPASSSonarJrStampServoControllerJserial Port (COM1)Jserial Port (COM2)Basic StampPBASIC
- 32. Robotics API – Part 3Simon Says BehaviorNavigation TaskPerson Identification TaskCOMPASSSonarVoiceEarLeft EyeRight EyeDriveJrStampServoControllerSound CardWeb Camera
- 34. PBASIC
- 35. Arduino
- 36. Two Ways To Get TelemetryRequest Response (Send Serial Byte) Wait…Receive Bytes/StringsContinuous Stream (Multi-Threaded) In Development
- 40. Real Robot ExamplesThrough Unit Testing
- 41. Limitations of this Robot?
- 42. What would make it better?Text to Speech?Speech Recognition?Vision?
- 43. Jvoice
- 44. JSpeechRecognizerTwo Methods (Dictaction) – MicrosoftSRTrain Guess(Grammar) – SphinxSRTell it what to expect Only responds to commands
- 45. Vision (JCamera)First Get The Imagepublic BufferedImagegetImage();Windows – Java Media FrameworkLinux – Custom C LibrariesMac – Quicktime For Java???
- 46. Image Processing – Part 1
- 47. Image Processing – Part 2
- 48. Image ProcessingBasics (Threshholding)Color DetectionMotion DetectionRegion of Interest DetectionObject Detection
- 50. SummaryReal Robots Start SmallYou Need SensorsYou need Speech & Vision
- 51. Thank You!@scottpreston / @scottsbotsscott@scottsbots.com