April2017

Meeting Minutes for Saturday April 8, 2017

10:00-11:00 Lecture on Velocity Scaling and Path Following. Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses AI and Navigation topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation)
11:00-12:00 Class - Interfacing the Arduino Pro mini by Tim L.
12:00-12:30 Break - bring your snacks or lunch
12:30-12:45 Business Meeting
12:45- 1:15 Competition- Line Following
1:15 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell

10:05AM Dr. Bruce discusses 'Velocity Scaling'
Hacked Neato Robotics LIDAR sensor from https://www.getsurreal.com/
Hector SLAM and the Neato sensor https://github.com/JanezCim/Neato-XV-11-Hector-SLAM
Navigation with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping by Mikael Berg. You can download below.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rKR5-uYZ4
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering Cybernetics. Source http://ntnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A644201&dswid=9673

11:18AM Bob Barbosa talked about and showed photos about the FIRST event at Pyramid in California State University, Long Beach at the Pyramid. RSSC member Paul Ashley had a team there. Patrici's son was also in another team and John Macarthy from the Riverside Robotics Society had a team there with his son. RSSC distributed a lot of the I love Robots stickers.
2017 FIRST Robotics Kickoff Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwwnbLSW6hY
Team 4470 - Los Angeles Regional 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj0pfEONhJo

11:35AM Alan Timm talks about his new ROS implementation for the InMoov robot. You can see the code at github.com/alansrobotlab/inmoov_ros

12:47 Business Meeting
Ron - budget $1003.03
Eric & Walter discuss the events shown below

RSSC is part of the National Robotics Week Events on April 8th, 2017
www.nationalroboticsweek.org/Events#_F084162DBEE24BFEB75F09886CB434CB

RSSC will be at the 2017 SoCal Robotics Symposium
Friday April 14th at USC from 9AM to 5PM
Be sure to register ($30) at http://socal-robotics.org/

RSSC is Invited to Attend a Play about AI and Robotics
International Theatre in Long Beach, California present Uncanny Valley
Visit them at http://ictlongbeach.org/ for tickets. RSSC Members get a discount.
Come and see some of our InMoov humanoid robots promoting our society on opening night Friday April 21th, 2017.

Drawing on current research in artificial intelligence and robotics, UNCANNY VALLEY charts the relationship between Claire, a neuroscientist, and Julian, a nonbiological human. As Julian is “born” a few body parts at a time over the course of the play, Claire teaches him how to be as human as possible. UNCANNY VALLEY explores the painful divide between creator and creation, and how we are redefining what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
Inspired by Bina48 an uncannily realistic humanoid robot designed to look like a real human being named Bina Rothblatt
blog.internationalcitytheatre.org/the-robot-that-inspired-the-script-bina48/

2017 Scheduled Events
Classes:
- Jan: Bill - Discussed the Arduino Alternatives
- Feb: Alan - All about Git Hub
- Mar: Mitch - Interfacing Arduino to Bluetooth
- Apr: Tim Lewis - Interfacing the Arduino Pro mini
- May: Mitch Lithium vs Lead Acid battery technologies
- June: DSP (by Les)
- July: Amazon Alexa Programming by Thomas
- Aug: Machine Vision (by Karl possibility)
- Sept:
- October: Halloween by Tim Lewis
- Nov:
- Dec:

Contests:
- Jan: No Contest
- Feb: No Contest
- Mar: Best use of voice command
- Apr: Line Following
- May: Sumo
- June: Fire Fighting Robot Contest
- July: Walking Robot Contest
- Aug:
- Sept: Line Following
- October: Open Door or fetch beverage (tentative)
- Nov: Sumo
- Dec: Talent Contest and Pizza Party

Show - N - Tell

1:00 Line Follower Competition
Ken (shown below with the red hat) completed course in13 secs based on the Arduino car kits
Brian (shown in black sweater) 10 secs to complete course (winner!) based on Pololu Zumo www.pololu.com/category/129/zumo-robots-and-accessories

1:15 Tim Lewis shows his animatronic skull using optoisolators.

1:30 Mitch and his daughter Emma refurbished a police robot.He bought it on ebay.
Here is an article about how Mitch and his daughter refurbished this robot
www.botmag.com/restoring-police-robot-family-project/

Photos From Previous Events

Hanson Robotics Visiting RSSC

RSSC at the San Diego Maker Faire 2016.
See report and photos here:
http://www.rssc.org/sdmakerfaire2016.html

SoCal Maker Convention in Pomona, Saturday November 5th. Get tickets at http://socalmakercon.com
http://www.rssc.org/socalmakercon2016.html

National Robotics Week! April 2-10, 2016
http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/

2015 RSSC Event Participation:
- RSCC will be participating in the San Diego Maker Faire October 3-4, 2015

- RSSC was present in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals on Friday and Saturday June 5th and 6th at the Fairplex in Pomona. Thanks Robotis for allowing us to be part of your venue and great job in the contest!

- RSSC participated in the Orange County Mini Makers Faire at the Irvine Valley College on Saturday May 9th

- RSSC participated in the Long Beach Robo Tech Innovation Celebration on Sunday March 29th, 2015