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Parallax Stringray Robot - 1st Place at Carnegie Mellon University Mobot Race 2011

KyeKye Posts: 2,200
edited 2011-05-09 12:31 in Robotics
Why a Mobot Race

An autonomous robotic agent consists of a real physical artifact that#includes perception, action, and reasoning capabilities. The robot needs to be able to perceive features of the world and to navigate towards the achievement of its goals. Building an autonomous robotic agent is a challenging task of great interest to the advance of the scientific areas of robotics and artificial intelligence.

The Mobot competition is designed to allow the participants to explore some of the main technical aspects involved in building an autonomous robotic agent. Concretely, in the Mobot competition, the robot needs to follow a white line on the ground outdoors along a specific path. This task#includes a set of technical difficulties, including the mechanical construction of the robot to allow for outdoors navigation on non-flat terrain; the development of robot sensors to robustly detect the relevant features of the task, in particular the white line; and reasoning rules that allow the robot to select the appropriate actions. Participants in the competition successfully acquire on-hands research experience in this full range of scientific challenges.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/mobot/index.html - Information Page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/mobot/winners.html - Winners Gallery

http://cid-e1d4552fdaa57cd7.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?page=play&resid=E1D4552FDAA57CD7!4276 - Watch Video Online

http://forums.parallax.com/entry.php?217-Parallax-Stringray-Robot-1st-Place-at-Carneie-Mellon-University-Mobot-Race-2011 - Blog Post

Comments

  • Kevin CookKevin Cook Posts: 159
    edited 2011-04-24 11:58
    Nice work, I really like the video! I can't wait to work with you this summer!
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2011-04-24 13:53
    Congratulations!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-04-24 15:37
    Congrats, man! That was an impressive run. What kind of sensor were you using to follow the line?

    -Phil
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2011-04-25 08:32
    Just 8 parallax QTI sensors mounted underneath the robot. I realy only use 6 of them in my code.
  • Kevin CookKevin Cook Posts: 159
    edited 2011-04-26 07:58
    I bet if you placed a couple QTI's off set above the others; say in the corners it could be used to catch the Y and V line breaks and stay on course.

    Do you have any interest in high speed line followers?
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2011-04-30 08:17
    Plans are to use the CMUcam mounted in the front of the robot for the next year to do line followin at a higher speed. It gives 17FPS.
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,241
    edited 2011-05-01 05:20
    Congratulations on the 1st Place win, Kye. That's so coool!

    Paul
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2011-05-01 17:48
    XLNT work Kye. Congrats and way to fly Parallax colors using a Stingray!
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2011-05-02 15:25
    I made sure to advertise. =)
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2011-05-06 14:52
    wrote:
    Great work again Kye! I love the way this competion works...
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-05-07 06:46
    Great run and video! I loved the way it just cruised right through the solid blocks to catch the line on the other side.
  • Ray0665Ray0665 Posts: 231
    edited 2011-05-08 19:59
    wrote:
    Congratulations on the 1st Place win
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    edited 2011-05-09 10:56
    wrote:
    Nice job, Kye. Thank you for the support! Look forward to your stay at Parallax.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-05-09 11:18
    A little late to say awesome run with the StingRay.

    @Ken..You mean Kye is actually going to get paid for his awesome code...Good Deal!! Congrats Kye!!

    Ken Gracey wrote: »
    Nice job, Kye. Thank you for the support! Look forward to your stay at Parallax.
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2011-05-09 12:31
    wrote:
    @Ken - Feel free to download the video and edit it for marketing purposes.
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