JUNE 2015 Meeting Report
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Next Meeting Saturday July 11, 2015
9:30-10:00 Coffee & Social Time 10:00-11:00 leafproject.org Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group - Dr. Bruce discusses AI topics -Cricket for indoor GPS http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cricket/ 11:00-12:00 Elementary Robotics with the kit from http://RoboticsCity.com by Walter Martinez 12:00-12:30 Break for Lunch (bring a snack) 12:30-12:45 Business Meeting 1:00 - Contest: Prequalification for Mini Corner To Corner Contest - rules are being developed. See discussion Here 1:30 - Show-N-Tell - show-off your robots! You never know what people will bring to show off! |
Announcements:
- 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 |
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RSSC is an exciting and fun experimental robotics society
formed in the late 1970's to meet the demand in interest in robotics in Southern California which to this day keeps on growing!. We meet once a
month on the second Saturday of the month at California State University
Long Beach in the Engineering Technology (ET) building, room 241. Our meetings start at 10 AM with classes, special interest
groups on different robotics subjects from simple to very complex. Anyone interested in robotics and other latest technologies such as 3D printing, Arduino maker movement, Lego, Artificial Intelligence of any age group and skill level is welcome to come to our meetings! We also have presenters from student projects, Battlebot builders to
Mars rover drivers, movie and TV commercial robot builders and leaders from the robotics community.
Stay up to date of what's going on by joining our mailing list! We are roboholics and love building autonomous robots!
RSSC is currently rebuilding their website. Please excuse some of the construction in progress. RSSC Old Site Copy Live in the Inland Empire in California please visit our sister club The Riverside Robotics Society. |
Monthly AI Special Interest Group Presentations- 10AM
August 8, 2015 Demo on Cricket for Indoor GPS Monthly Classes/Presentations Coming Up- 11AM August 8, 2015 - Cheap Robots by Paul Ashely Monthly Competitions Coming Up- 1PM July 11, 2015 - Qualifiers for Mini Corner To Corner Contest August 8, 2015 -Preliminary Mini Corner-To Corner Contest Events Coming Up October 3-4, 2015 San Diego Maker Faire September 12, 2015 World Robot Olympiad – International Robot Competition TBD |
Saturday June 13, 2015 RSSC.ORG Meeting Report
10 AM Dr. Bruce shows indoor GPS using Arduino and ZigBee
Notes
Using trilateration to figure out location by using 8 beacons.
Paper solving trilateration, Willy Hereman, PhD
http://inside.mines.edu/~whereman/
Using python to solve this problem (Numpy and Scipy)
Enthought Canopy – Python Development Environment
https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/
Cricket Indoor Location System: uses XBee and Sonar technique by MIT and CMU
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/46056006_Indoor_Inter-Robot_Distance_Measurement_in_Collaborative_Systems
Cons
2 meters resolution
Measurements of distance are not exact – usually short
* can’t do RSSI
10 AM Dr. Bruce shows indoor GPS using Arduino and ZigBee
Notes
Using trilateration to figure out location by using 8 beacons.
Paper solving trilateration, Willy Hereman, PhD
http://inside.mines.edu/~whereman/
Using python to solve this problem (Numpy and Scipy)
Enthought Canopy – Python Development Environment
https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/
Cricket Indoor Location System: uses XBee and Sonar technique by MIT and CMU
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/46056006_Indoor_Inter-Robot_Distance_Measurement_in_Collaborative_Systems
Cons
2 meters resolution
Measurements of distance are not exact – usually short
* can’t do RSSI
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11:00 AM Arduino for Robots by Sergei Grichine from http://trackroamer.com/ Nice overview of the different Arduino boards including the Leonardo, Pro Mini 328 5V. http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLeonardo UNO vs Leonardo http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/10/arduino-leonardo-vs-arduino-uno.html Serial communication: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson4.html Multitasking: https://learn.adafruit.com/multi-tasking-the-arduino-part-1/overview Preemptive Multitasking: http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/beginner-s-corner/4024543/Introduction-to-Preemptive-Multitasking Sergei is also sharing his C# and Arduino files from all of his projects. There is lots of great code here including libraries that would be very helpful. Sergei has created self balancing robots, Microsoft Kinect based robots and a lot more! Files are very large so do a Right-Click and select Save As to download them. 37MB and 53MB
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Files provided by Sergei
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12:50 Jim Ubersetzig opened up the meeting and new people introduced themselves
We had a lot of new people show up to this meeting.
1:00 Patricia Tsoiasue spoke about the new competition World Robot Olympiad – International Robot Competition – on September 12, 2015
Patricia is looking for teams and volunteers
Elementary and Middle School
We had a lot of new people show up to this meeting.
1:00 Patricia Tsoiasue spoke about the new competition World Robot Olympiad – International Robot Competition – on September 12, 2015
Patricia is looking for teams and volunteers
Elementary and Middle School
1:18 Classes for the following months:
Monthly Classes:
Walter Martinez– July, class on Elementary Robotics
Paul Ashely – August, class on Building Cheap Robots
AI Classes:
Bruce – July, class on Crickets for indoor GPS navigation
Competitions:
Prequalification for the mini corner contest – for July: competitors bring robots that could possibly navigate from one corner to another.
ask jim for rules, Walter, Paul Ashley and Jim to come up with rules - see Contest Rules
Monthly Classes:
Walter Martinez– July, class on Elementary Robotics
Paul Ashely – August, class on Building Cheap Robots
AI Classes:
Bruce – July, class on Crickets for indoor GPS navigation
Competitions:
Prequalification for the mini corner contest – for July: competitors bring robots that could possibly navigate from one corner to another.
ask jim for rules, Walter, Paul Ashley and Jim to come up with rules - see Contest Rules
June 2015 Robot Competition: Line Following Competition
Winner: The Blood Tank 5.12 sec, second place PiBot 3.34 sec, third place Walternator 11.32 seconds and fourth place Chappie 32.33 seconds
Winner: The Blood Tank 5.12 sec, second place PiBot 3.34 sec, third place Walternator 11.32 seconds and fourth place Chappie 32.33 seconds
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Short video with Dr. Bruce demonstrating the ability to use an IR remote to switch between autonomous line following, autonomous navigation with sonar, feelers. When you press a button on the remote the Arduino program goes to a switch case and performs particular functions based on the button. Very clever use of a remote and do multifunction with in a single robot. Download Arduino code for this example.
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3:00 Bob and Walter show photos and video report of the DARPA Grand Challenge 2015
You can view them here: http://www.rssc.org/darparoboticschallenge2015.html 3:32 Sergei discussed product – LIDAR LITE http://pulsedlight3d.com/ See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Jc0GpYKYI Buy at: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13167 See files you can download under the 11AM class for more information 4:00 How to use a PIC to for programmable LEDs - Demo of programmable LEDs 4:05 Meeting Ended |
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Member's Robots of the Month
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