robotic raptor based on the BASIC Stamp
Bipedguy
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I need a lot of help with a project I am working on. Here it is:
I am trying to build a robotic raptor based on the BASIC Stamp. At [noparse][[/noparse]www.crustcrawler.com], you can download a C program called GaitPIC which will handle the servoes using a 16F688 from Microchip. I will modify the program to run on my raptor. Until then, I will be testing using my current Board of Education with a new Stamp 2p with special Roboraptor legs and a neck and head packed with sensors.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a learning capability for the Boe-bot with an extra PIC or Propeller maybe?
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I am trying to build a robotic raptor based on the BASIC Stamp. At [noparse][[/noparse]www.crustcrawler.com], you can download a C program called GaitPIC which will handle the servoes using a 16F688 from Microchip. I will modify the program to run on my raptor. Until then, I will be testing using my current Board of Education with a new Stamp 2p with special Roboraptor legs and a neck and head packed with sensors.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a learning capability for the Boe-bot with an extra PIC or Propeller maybe?
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Post Edited By Moderator (Chris Savage (Parallax)) : 3/17/2007 12:38:17 AM GMT
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As for learning capability I mean artificial intelligence
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There are no preexisting AI routines for the Propeller. You'll have to make your own. The Propeller is quite fast, can do floating point adds in under 5us, has 8 independent processors, etc.
Will use the Proto board itself probably, depends though. With the size of the robot (see below), im planning on using quite a few servos.
-The raptor will be a comepletely autonomous bipedal robot which is now based on the Propeller P8X32A-Q44 (QFP) Chip.
-probably 32+ inches long
-AI(Hopefully)
-Mics to detect direction of sound
-3-axis accelerometer
and much more!
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How many propellers can work together?
The AI that I am hoping to create is the raptor being able to cross a situation (say laying on my lap) to an action (say petting the robot). Any ideas for that?
What type of sensor could detect if the robot is being lifted or if it is on its side.
What type of sensor would allow the raptor to know in what position all of its continous rotation servos are?
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How many do you have?
Set up one as the 'backbone' or 'brainstem' if you like, and use up to 7 COGs running the Full-duplex serial routines to 'speak' to the other Propellers, and use the last one to do 'packet decoding' and simple routing control.
Need to control more than 7 Propellers(using nr. 8 as the backbone), just add another Propeller to the backbone...
This is of course quite wasteful...
(But gives quite a nice bandwidth)
A better solution is probably to let them share the tasks a bit more.
Place a Propeller in the hip and shoulder, and let them not only control the closest servos, but also do the linking.
Even then you should have enough capacity in them to add simple sensors and rudimentary reaction patterns in them.
(Look up the ADC routines mentioned in the Propeller forum. just by adding a couple of resistors and caps a single COG is able to do two simultaneous ADCs, and if you multiplex them, 16 or 32 is possible with a decent speed in that one COG)
Ad an accelereometer to detect movement, and a gyro to give positional information.
At what accuracy do you want it?
you could just stick a disc with a small hole on the axis, and use it with a LED and detector, to get one position, then calculate from then on, or you could add a CRAY-disc, or...
but...
Continuous rotation servos in a walking robot?
(Most leg-movements are pendulous, not rotational... )
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Yes, the nearest reseller is a Swedish netshop(elfa.se), but they have a warehouse here in Norway, so there's no T(r)OLL to consider. They're not always the first to get new stuff(like the Propeller Prototying board), but they have a decent inventory and OK prices.
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I don't have too much time to play with Propellers(I'm working on making an X-UFO fly autonomously) at the moment, as I'm in the process of getting a new apartment and I REALLY need to get stuff packed...
(I have about two months until it's moving time... not enough time... )
So I can't help with code or technical details...
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