Saturday September 10, 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 Eric W. Plastic Materials Used in Robotics. Eric covered plastic properties, tools used to work with it, heat set inserts from McMaster Carr, 3D printing and vacuum forming.
This is Eric's Blog providing the details of this awesome presentation https://itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/applications-and-fabrication-with-plastics/
Info on plastic data sheets https://plastics.ulprospector.com/
Places in SoCal to visit:
http://paragonplastics.us/
https://www.iplasticsupply.com/
This is Eric's Blog providing the details of this awesome presentation https://itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/applications-and-fabrication-with-plastics/
Info on plastic data sheets https://plastics.ulprospector.com/
Places in SoCal to visit:
http://paragonplastics.us/
https://www.iplasticsupply.com/
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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:
- October: Robots for Halloween by Tim L.
- Nov: (Tentative - InMoov SIG gives a status update)
- Dec:
Contests:
- October : 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
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 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.
No robot was able to complete the task so it will be repeated again in October.
No robot was able to complete the task so it will be repeated again in October.
Show and Tell - bring your robotic creations to demonstrate or ask for help on your projects
2:00 Tim discussed his presentation for next month. He will cover animatronics. Tim has a lot of animatronics industry experience.
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/
2:30 Jim discusses the possibility of using an inexpensive calculator and its components as sensors for robot hands
2:30 Jim discusses the possibility of using an inexpensive calculator and its components as sensors for robot hands
2:45 Thanks for attending the meeting!
Don't forget to join our email list: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RSSC-list/info
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