Meeting Minutes Saturday May 13th, 2017
This Month's Schedule
10:00-11:00 Special Interest Group Lectures- on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses AI and Navigation topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation, velocity scaling)
11:00-12:00 Class - DSP (by Les)
12:00-12:30 Break - bring your snacks or lunch
12:30-12:45 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events
- Budget
- Next classes and Competitions including World Robot Olympiad
- Participation in the Long Beach ComiCon (Sept. 2017)
12:45- 1:15 Competition- Fire Fighting Robot Contest! For rules visit www.rssc.org/firefightingcontest.html We will have contestants from Mt. Sac. College and expect lots of people for this event. Prof. Martin Mason brings his student teams from www.mtsac.edu to compete.
1:15 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell - Show us what you are working on! Open to anyone to show what they are working on or ask for opinions and getting possible solutions.
Impress us with your best creation!
This Month's Schedule
10:00-11:00 Special Interest Group Lectures- on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses AI and Navigation topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation, velocity scaling)
11:00-12:00 Class - DSP (by Les)
12:00-12:30 Break - bring your snacks or lunch
12:30-12:45 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events
- Budget
- Next classes and Competitions including World Robot Olympiad
- Participation in the Long Beach ComiCon (Sept. 2017)
12:45- 1:15 Competition- Fire Fighting Robot Contest! For rules visit www.rssc.org/firefightingcontest.html We will have contestants from Mt. Sac. College and expect lots of people for this event. Prof. Martin Mason brings his student teams from www.mtsac.edu to compete.
1:15 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell - Show us what you are working on! Open to anyone to show what they are working on or ask for opinions and getting possible solutions.
Impress us with your best creation!
10:00 AM AI Special Interest Group session by Dr. Bruce Weimer.
Dr. Bruce covered topics on holonomic wheels, socket programming, autonomous navigation
11:00 AM Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Robotics Enthusiasts by Les Howell
Les covered analog signal that continuously varies in time. Other topics included FLash ADC, Delta Sigma, SAR DAC Sequential Approximation Register with Digital Analog) Fast Fourier Transform and filters.
Presentation files included below.
Les covered analog signal that continuously varies in time. Other topics included FLash ADC, Delta Sigma, SAR DAC Sequential Approximation Register with Digital Analog) Fast Fourier Transform and filters.
Presentation files included below.
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During my DSP lecture I spoke about coupling the output of an FFT to a neural net for speech recognition. I mentioned in passing the PRML response comparison. These together make up one means of speech recognition. This link discusses a new chip to do a lot of the management of when to capture, the dsp and the neural net portions:
http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1302-ntb/tech-briefs/sensors-data-acquisition/26863-low-power-special-purpose-chip-for-speech-recognition-in-electronics?eid=376620296&bid=1782584
http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1302-ntb/tech-briefs/sensors-data-acquisition/26863-low-power-special-purpose-chip-for-speech-recognition-in-electronics?eid=376620296&bid=1782584
12:40 Break
1:00 Business Meeting
We discussed the Maker Faire in Northern California and the Suva Elementary events.
Our next competition is the Legged Robot walking contest!
We discussed the Maker Faire in Northern California and the Suva Elementary events.
Our next competition is the Legged Robot walking contest!
Suva Elementary Science Fair 2017 in Bell Gardens, California
Walter Martinez represented RSSC at the 2017 Suva Elementary School by inspiring lots of young future roboticists!
See photos at www.rssc.org/2017suvaelementary.html
See photos at www.rssc.org/2017suvaelementary.html
RSSC Was Present at the 2017 Bay Area Maker Faire
Thanks to Mitch Anderson and his daughter for representing RSSC at the world's greatest Maker Faire! See photos www.rssc.org/2017bayareamakerfaire.html
1:10 PM Firefighting Robotics Competition
We had a fantastic competition with participants from RSSC.org and Mt. Sac College. Winners got some nice prizes and everyone had a good time!
We had a fantastic competition with participants from RSSC.org and Mt. Sac College. Winners got some nice prizes and everyone had a good time!
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2:00 PM Bob Barboza from kidstalkradiola.com/ talked about his projects when kids learn about robotics and science and is currently looking for volunteers to help with these projects. Barboza works with kids from the Long Beach Unified School Disctrict
2:10 Prof Martin Mason from Mt. Sac College talked about his projects in Battlebots. He demonstrated his latest Battlebot of 60lbs. He made them so compact using the latest motor, controllers and battery technology. Visit the NRL National Robotics League gonrl.org/ to participate on the battle robots projects.
His students also demonstrated their robot builds and what components they decided to use.
Penumatics in hobby robots with the VEX products are easy to interface and use PWM pulses to activate.
His students also demonstrated their robot builds and what components they decided to use.
Penumatics in hobby robots with the VEX products are easy to interface and use PWM pulses to activate.
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Other alternatives for actuators include the new actuators by Deezmaker. The Kickstarter campaign ends soon so please support this great actuator at www.kickstarter.com/projects/deezmaker/maker-muscle-worlds-first-customizable-actuator-fo?ref=nav_search
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2:35 Students from Cerritos College ( Elena Robles ([email protected]) and Luis Sanchez )are working on an autonomous glider and are seeking assistance. They need coaching in flying/flight information.
2:46 Patricia (Trish) proposed we participate in the next WRO World Robot Olympiad www.wroboto.org/
Patricia is looking for volunteers and hope RSSC can host it as part of the meeting in 2017 or 2018
World Robot Olympiad is an event for science, technology and education which brings together young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions.
Teams of two or three students participate in this competition. Participating teams need to create, design and build a robot model that is capable to perform a challenge. Each year a new theme and challenge are set. The competition starts from preliminary rounds to the final judging.
Walter Martinez agreed to help with judging if we get a chance to do this event.
Also, Walter will be giving a virtual talk on September 22-23 to a first time team from his native land Honduras that will be participating for the first time in WRO! See www.wrohonduras.org/ The finals will be in Costa Rica
Objectives
Patricia is looking for volunteers and hope RSSC can host it as part of the meeting in 2017 or 2018
World Robot Olympiad is an event for science, technology and education which brings together young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions.
Teams of two or three students participate in this competition. Participating teams need to create, design and build a robot model that is capable to perform a challenge. Each year a new theme and challenge are set. The competition starts from preliminary rounds to the final judging.
Walter Martinez agreed to help with judging if we get a chance to do this event.
Also, Walter will be giving a virtual talk on September 22-23 to a first time team from his native land Honduras that will be participating for the first time in WRO! See www.wrohonduras.org/ The finals will be in Costa Rica
Objectives
- Provide students an opportunity to expand their horizons through exploration of robots and robotic systems in the school.
- Introduce the concept of modern science into school's educational activities in science and technology.
- Provide an opportunity to promote creative thinking, improve communications and cooperation skills strengthen the ability to acquire new knowledge highly relevant towards progressive education.
- Bring together young people all over the world to develop creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robot competition.
- To widen the youth's view in the application of science & technology, improve their learning efficiency & encourage our youth to be future scientists, engineers and inventors.
3:00 Sergei demonstrated his (old version of the Turtlebot) using the Roombac Create, Kinect and ROS. Sergei offers help if you want to get yours up and running. Send your questions to the RSS-List
3:09 Tim Lewis demonstrated his nerf gun hit detection system. Is working well so far!
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3:15 Thomas showed some InMoov legs he found on Thingiverse (show links)
Thomas is also Looking for Lecturers to hire for his Robotics College project. Contact Thomas directly
Thomas is also Looking for Lecturers to hire for his Robotics College project. Contact Thomas directly
Thomas Messerschmidt is sharing these links of files to 3D print the legs for the InMoov robot.
Articulating Legs: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2316843 Static Legs: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2308651 Forward Tilting Stomach: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1409964 Improved hands: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:701446 Very cool legs from aluminum tubing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2261024www.thingiverse.com/thing:2261024 Feet 1: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:861209 Feet 2: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:971710 |
This are the lecture subjects:
• Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Electronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Digital Electronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Analog Electronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Math for Electronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Mechanics as it Applies to Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Programming Arduino (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Programming Raspberry Pi (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Programming Sensors (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Winning and Competing in FIRST competitions • Artificial Intelligence (AI) (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Building Movie Robot Replicas (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Medical Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Military Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Humanoid Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Underwater Robotics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • History of Robotics and mechanical devices • Designing and Building Sensors (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Motors and motor control (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Winning Line Following Robots (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Winning Sumobots (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Smart Devices and IoT Devices (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • SLAM (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Voice Recognition (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Voice Synthesis (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Robotic Prosthetic Devices (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Welding • Using 3D Printers • Building your own 3D Printer • Using CNC Devices • Building your own CNC Devices • Making Art with Robots • Adding LEDs to Clothing • Soldering (basic, SMT) • Radio Device Control (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Remote / Tele-operated robots and devices • Brain-Computer Interface • Robots of NASA • Robotics of Aerospace (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Robot Music • Animatronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Autonomous Vehicle Design (self-driving cars) (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Embedded Systems and Design (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Human-Machine Inference • Industrial Robotics and Automation (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Machine Control Systems (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Mechatronics (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Microcontroller Design (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Machine Vision (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Robot Bus and Communication (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Chatbots and Agents • Face Recognition and Identification • Walking Bipedal Robots (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Robot Locomotion (intro, basic, general, and advanced) • Robot and Automation Safety • Autonomous Location of and Robotic Manipulation of Objects in 3D Space • YOUR Suggestions for a Robotics-oriented Class • Building a Battle Robot for Competitions |
3:24 Walter Martinez talked about his progress with the InMoov project (EVO) and ho he is using some the Maker Muscle linear actuators from Deezmaker's Kickstarter campaign.
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Our Meetings and Society Information
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, Particle, Raspberry Pi, Robotis, NAO, ROS Robot Operating System, InMoov, 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!
Live in the Inland Empire in California please visit our sister club The Riverside Robotics Society
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, Particle, Raspberry Pi, Robotis, NAO, ROS Robot Operating System, InMoov, 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!
Live in the Inland Empire in California please visit our sister club The Riverside Robotics Society
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:
- Sept: ESP8266 Dev Modules by Karl
- 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 - moved to August
- June: Fire Fighting Robot Contest
- July: Walking Robot Contest
- Aug: Sumo
- Sept: Line Following
- October: Open Door or fetch beverage (tentative)
- Nov: Sumo
- Dec: Talent Contest and Pizza Party
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:
- Sept: ESP8266 Dev Modules by Karl
- 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 - moved to August
- June: Fire Fighting Robot Contest
- July: Walking Robot Contest
- Aug: Sumo
- Sept: Line Following
- October: Open Door or fetch beverage (tentative)
- Nov: Sumo
- Dec: Talent Contest and Pizza Party
Prof. Mason and his students from Mt. Sac College competition in a firefighting robot contest
