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The new ACM executive
board has unanimously decided to
take up a research project for the 2004-2005 academic year (and
beyond). The main goals of the project, as of yet, would be to:
- Buy and assemble robot
kit, including a robotic arm and web
cams.
- Program the robot
under the Linux operating system.
- Learn and understand
artificial intelligence, robotic
vision, neural networks, etc.
Dr.
Weiyu Zhu has
generously offered to help us, since this was his research thesis. Any
student of IWU who is interested in the project is welcome to join the
ACM. For details, please email an
executive officer.
Robot
Watch
May 12: Work on the driver
is progressing. I
have been able to create a driver for a generic characted device, and
will not attempt to refine it specifically for the Lynx 5 robot. Anyone
who is
interested in driver development would find the book Linux Device Drivers 3rd edition
(available for free on the internet) the best place to start.
-Aditya
Jan 17: Decision to split work into different members.
For more information contact Aditya
(linux driver) or Joe (OOPic
interface in C).
Jan 10: Good news, control over the robot has been
acquired, albeit in Windows!! The software used can be downloaded here. The next steps are
to achieve total control of motion and to write a linux driver.
Dec
16: Till date no luck
with a driver. We were able to send some data to the robot which
replied with a verification check, but no more than that. Seems as if
we'll need to do some work over the winter break.
Nov
01: Discovered that LynxMotion
provides a driver only for MS Windows. Therefore, in order
to continue the project on our preferred Linux platform, we shall
either have to obtain a driver or write one ourselves. This could take
some time, but we hope to come up with something by the end of the
semester.
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