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"Docking
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of home built Robotic projects we have built over the past few
years, highlighting the technical challenges, architectural design,
and programming goals. Our robots are of the autonomous type,
reacting to their environment with their own sensors, and with
minimal outside control or human intervention. All of our PIC
based robots are hand made in our workshop / electronics lab. |
Current state of project, the custom robotics
PCB is done and installed into the sweep
drive robotics base.
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Sweep Bot 1
A Floor Sweeping Autonomous Robot
This
robot is being designed to fill a practical household need: To
keep the bathroom floor swept clean of the cat litter that escapes
from the cats litter box. It will live and work entirely within
the bathroom, and using the knowledge gained in the entire PICbot
Logic series, we will build on that knowledge to create a mostly
self sufficient worker drone.
Project Started August 24, 2007
GO TO PROJECT PAGE
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Standard PIC Processor Based Robots:
Picbot
V main Page
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PICbot V
A Docking Logic Development Robot
This is part
four in our in depth series on developing more advanced A.I.
for a household robot. The PicBot V is used to develop several
beacon docking methods and setting the stage for autonomous charging
of the robots batteries.
Project Started Feb 1, 2007
Project Ended August 11, 2007
Docking Logic Final Report
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Picbot
IV main Page
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PICbot IV
A Stasis Logic Development Robot
This is the third
part of a larger program to greatly improve the Artificial Intelligence
(AI) of my successive robotics projects. The small PICbot IV
will be used to develop, analyze and detect navigation sensing
failures which may result in robot stasis.
Project Started December 1, 2006
Finished January 29, 2007
Final Report HERE
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Picbot
III main Page
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PICbot III
A IR Prox Logic Development Robot
This is the second
part of a larger program to greatly improve the Artificial Intelligence
(AI) of my successive robotics projects. The small PICbot III
will be used to develop, analyze and perfect navigation principles
using modulated infrared proximity sensors.
Project Started November 1, 2006
Finished December 1, 2006
Final Report HERE
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PicBot II
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Finished
October 2006
A Bumper Logic Development Robot
This
was the first part of a larger program to greatly improve the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) of my successive robotics projects.
The small PICbot series will be the vehicles to develop each
level of subsumtion separately to a level beyond what I have
done previously. The final goal of this program is to complete
the design for a Priority Arbitration Architecture PCB, which
can be adapted to all future robots. This should make it possible
to exceed the Beetle level of intelligence and push onward. The
first project was the bumper imact module. We were able to optimise
the reactions and behaviors on a generic sense on both a reflexive
and chronometric level. The result, is will be a huge article
on bumper logic.
And here is the
complete Article: Uploaded 10/12/06
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Geobot I
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Finished
August 2006
Geobot
I was our first outdoor robot, and was designed to go out on
distance specific missions and collect rock and soil samples
and return them to base. We accomplished this, and the Final
Report can be read HERE. The main Geobot project
Pages start HERE
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VacBot 1
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Finished
October 2005
VacBot
I was a research project for developing a set of specifications
to a abetter understanding of how to construct an autonomous
home roving vacuuming robot. You can jump to the main page HERE and the Final Report
can be found HERE.
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P.A.A.M.I.
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Finished June 2005
PAAMI stands
for Priority Arbitration Machine Intelligence. She is
one of very few robots in existence that uses a totally hardware
approach to Priority Arbitration Architecture, with 8 levels
of Subsumption. Her primary function at this time is to self
charge, and not get stuck in a household environment not specially
prepared for a robot in any way - which includes stairwells and
sharp drop offs. she can collect items such as cans and tennis
balls and stack them at a known location with her gripper. PAAMI
makes very amusing sounds depending on which level of subsumption
is currently being arbitrated. Mostly beeps, chirps and ramping
tones.
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PicBot I
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Finished April 2004
PicBot was our
first robot built with PIC processors, and mulit processor subsumption
architecture. It was a great deal more advanced in behavior than
the standard Boe Bot type with a BS2 processor.
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Ostracode
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Finished March 2004
Ostracode is
a small single processor robot that has one mission: Don't get
stuck no matter what in an unmodified household environment.
He can also sleep at night when darkness falls, and makes sounds
like a cricket. It uses a BS2SX processor.
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 Aurora Cam 1 |
Finished December 2003
Aurora Cam is
a robotic film camera system that works hard all night long taking
pictures of the night sky, patrolling for meteors, aurora and
sky phenomenon. It has been extremely successful.
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Above: Scale of increasing intelligence from left to right. We progress from the lowly brainless Amoeba upward to the most sophisticated animal on the right. Along the bottom are some of our robots we have built at approximately the level of intelligence that they are demonstrating.
SkidBot
ODObot 1
Digital Aurora Cam Control
X-Bot
RSR
Robotic Pterodactyl
Voice Controlled Verbot
Radio Controlled R2D2
