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Low-Cost Vision-Based IR Beacon Sensor for Small Mobile Robots

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:17:27 +0000

This project, named as Bsensor, was designed to overcome a difficult task for a small mobile robot in indoors environment; to solve the absolute positioning problem with few computational resources. Several methods exists, but most require triangulation from several sensors and positioning is not easily calculated as it is required that the robot receive [...]

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UniRoP, M16C-based Robot System

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:23:04 +0000

The UniRoP is a small sized robot system which combines classical robot sensors, like infrared distance sensor, accelerometers with a CMOS camera. It is also possible to control the robot by radio. To illustrate the possibilities of the designed system a sample task uses the CMOS picture sensor as an object detector. Simple picture processing [...]

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ArduRoller Balance Bot

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:29:41 +0000

This project shows you how to build a balance robot based on Arduino named as ArduRoller. It has nice chassis design and balances quite well on the spot. The robot also responds to knocks pretty quickly but sometimes giving it a more gentle push sends it gliding across the room at a constant speed. Shaun [...]

Inverted Pendulum Balancer

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:19:49 +0000

The goal of this project was to build and implement an inverted pendulum balancer based on microcontroller, in the vertical two dimensional plane, using Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) feedback control.The project uses radio controlled car which has been modified by adding a plexiglass platform and an inverted pendulum with free rotating pivot. The main components of the [...]

AVR Underwater ROV with Video Camera

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:36:42 +0000

This project will detail the build process, and parts to build an Underwater ROV (Remotely operated underwater vehicle) with video camera. The project plan is to make it a flexible platform that will allow user to add new features like leak detector, temp/pressure sensors, depth, air lift balloons, torpedo, sonar, grabbing arm, artificial horizon, compass, [...]

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Line Follower Vehicle

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:17:29 +0000

The project aim is to build autonomous car following a line against a luminance contrasting surface. It uses AVR8515 microcontroller to control the drive and steering servos. The car is equipped with an array of sensors (Infrared LED and phototransistor) to detect the path line. Each LED illuminates the floor, and the sensors detect the [...]

Autonomous Mini Sumo Robot

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:17:47 +0000

Seeker II is an autonomous mini-sumo robot which is designed to compete in mini-sumo robot competitions. It is low, fast, very aggressive, and has wide tires that provide a lot of traction. The robot’s brain is Microchip PIC16F876 programmed in C.The mini sumo robot sensors consist of two range finders and two edge detectors. The [...]