Saturday August, 2016 Meeting Minutes
10:00-11:00 leafproject.org Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group - Dr. Bruce discusses AI topics.
Dr. Bruce talked about his robot that uses a Zagros Robotics base http://www.zagrosrobotics.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=521
Also, he uses a lidar sensor from Neato vacuum robot hacked to work with Arduino. He uses an Arduino for motor controlling and remote control via a joystick (joypad).
Motor controller: https://www.pololu.com/category/124/roboclaw-motor-controllers
Bruce spoke about following the thesis Navigation with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping by Mikael Berg. You can download below.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rKR5-uYZ4
More info: http://wiki.ros.org/hector_slamwiki.ros.org/hector_slam
Dr. Bruce gave a demo of using the Go programming language as it is referenced in the thesis below: https://golang.org/
He shared source code of his progress below
10:00-11:00 leafproject.org Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group - Dr. Bruce discusses AI topics.
Dr. Bruce talked about his robot that uses a Zagros Robotics base http://www.zagrosrobotics.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=521
Also, he uses a lidar sensor from Neato vacuum robot hacked to work with Arduino. He uses an Arduino for motor controlling and remote control via a joystick (joypad).
Motor controller: https://www.pololu.com/category/124/roboclaw-motor-controllers
Bruce spoke about following the thesis Navigation with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping by Mikael Berg. You can download below.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rKR5-uYZ4
More info: http://wiki.ros.org/hector_slamwiki.ros.org/hector_slam
Dr. Bruce gave a demo of using the Go programming language as it is referenced in the thesis below: https://golang.org/
He shared source code of his progress below
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The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language
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Navigation with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping by Mikael Berg. 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
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11:00-12:00 InMoov 3D printed humanoid robot: Experiences in hardware and software by Alan.
Alan is using ROS http://www.ros.org/
He also recommends this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024736.do?sortby=publicationDate
He demonstrated his robot visualization using RVIZ http://wiki.ros.org/rviz
Alan has his Microsoft Kinect One working on his InMoov robot and did an amazging presentation of hi progress.
He is making his ROS files available at https://github.com/alansrobotlab
Also shares his project at https://www.facebook.com/alansrobotlab/
Alan is using ROS http://www.ros.org/
He also recommends this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024736.do?sortby=publicationDate
He demonstrated his robot visualization using RVIZ http://wiki.ros.org/rviz
Alan has his Microsoft Kinect One working on his InMoov robot and did an amazging presentation of hi progress.
He is making his ROS files available at https://github.com/alansrobotlab
Also shares his project at https://www.facebook.com/alansrobotlab/
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12:10-12:37 Lunch Break (bring your own lunch or use the university's convenience store)
12:38-1:15 Business Meeting
Classes:
- June: Bob Barboza class/discussion on Arduino Satellite Project
- July: InMoov robots: Experiences in hardware and software by Alan, Thomas and Walter
- Aug: InMoov by Alan - using the Microsoft Kinect One and InMoov
- Sept: Eric W. plastics and applications
- October: Robots for Halloween by Tim L.
- Nov:
- Dec:
Contests:
- July: Outdoor Robotics Contest
- September : Biped Robot Competition - robot walks ten feet in one direction, turns around and comes back to it original starting area. Fastest and more accurate to the final destination wins.
- November: Get me a soda/drink from the refrigerator contest
- December: Talent Contest and Pizza Party
Treasurer Report (Ron): We have a little over $1000 in the treasury
Sergei, Alan and Walter attended a meetup in Anaheim on Microsoft Cognitive Services and is possible uses for AI and Robotics (vision and voice recognition) . https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
Meetup group https://www.meetup.com/SoCalDevNet/ and event was https://www.meetup.com/SoCalDevNet/events/232573084/ by Daniel Egan
Thomas requested support for the next MakerCon event in Pomona, California on November 2015. We will participate and bring our robots to this event. http://socalmakercon.com/ thanks to Vocademy http://www.vocademy.com/ for putting this together!
Sergei/Eric discussed how some of our members will participate in the next San Diego Maker Faier http://sandiego.makerfaire.com/ on Saturday and Sunday October 1st and 2nd Please join our mailing list as we are organizing for this event via that list.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RSSC-list/info
1:00 No Contest:
Show and Tell - bring your robotic creations to demonstrate or ask for help on your projects
1:15 Ron -
1:20 Dr. Bruce spoke about ants and how their behavior could be used in robotic swarm technology
1:20 Dr. Bruce spoke about ants and how their behavior could be used in robotic swarm technology
1:37 Sergei brought his new Segway MiniPro http://www.segwayminipro.com/ he showed how he learned to use it and also how he can use his phone to control the Segway MiniPro while balancing on it own.
1:57 Walter talked about improvements for his robot kit used to learn robotics. The Riverside Robotics Society invited Walter to do a "build" session. You can purchase a kit at http://roboticscity.com and come to the build session to show you how to build your own robot. Build session will be at the Woodcrest library in Riverside Saturday August 20th from 10am to 2pm.
2:15 Thomas demonstrated his InMoov http://inmoov.fr/ and adaptation of the Elvis animatronic head https://www.amazon.com/Wow-Wee-9005-WoWWEe-Alive/dp/B000NIJ80W and the EZ-Robot controller. https://www.ez-robot.com/
2:45 Thanks for attending the meeting!
Don't forget to join our email list: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RSSC-list/info
Don't forget to join our email list: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RSSC-list/info