Project Overview
SNC Lab Bot (credit for description to Dr. Pankratz of St. Norbert College)
Most cars today come equipped with multiple driver assist modules such as: a car in your passing lane, auto-traction control, automatic parallel parking, back up cam control, and safe following detection. Dozens of companies including GM, Ford, and Google, are currently testing self-driving prototypes in real environments. Processing must be in real time and sensors must be able to issue interrupts for immediate processing.
Actually, current GPS technology allows the car to continuously “see” everywhere. Certainly, this gives the car much more information than a human driver. For example, suppose the car knows about obstacles with 360 degrees and can “see” what’s on the other side of the hill or around the approaching curve. Clearly, it’s time for our CS lab to
have its very own auto-mobile pet bot.
Project Description:
Design activities for a mobile robot mascot that will hang out and “socialize” with students in the Computer Lab.
Project Requirements:
Most cars today come equipped with multiple driver assist modules such as: a car in your passing lane, auto-traction control, automatic parallel parking, back up cam control, and safe following detection. Dozens of companies including GM, Ford, and Google, are currently testing self-driving prototypes in real environments. Processing must be in real time and sensors must be able to issue interrupts for immediate processing.
Actually, current GPS technology allows the car to continuously “see” everywhere. Certainly, this gives the car much more information than a human driver. For example, suppose the car knows about obstacles with 360 degrees and can “see” what’s on the other side of the hill or around the approaching curve. Clearly, it’s time for our CS lab to
have its very own auto-mobile pet bot.
Project Description:
Design activities for a mobile robot mascot that will hang out and “socialize” with students in the Computer Lab.
Project Requirements:
- Consider using a Parallax Activity Bot or similar to take advantage of parallel processing.
- The bot should understand its environment and know the location of the contents, probably using a modified geo-mesh to map the lab layout.
- Users can instruct the robot much like an RC vehicle.
- Users direct the mascot to move toward a target while avoiding obstacles
- The lab robot should be able to perform some pre-programmed activities such as finding a target while avoiding fixed obstacles.
- The lab robot should avoid obstacles that appear unexpectedly.
- Multiple users could give the robot instructions handling racing issues if necessary.
- The bot needs a name and a personality/attitude.