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Robot Research
Topic Started: Sep 27 2012, 12:43 AM (246 Views)
Gandalf20000
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I'm enrolled in a research and design class at my high school, and the particular project I'm personally doing is some basic machine learning research and experimentation. I'll be doing two separate experiments, but for my second experiment (which should start in January), I need a robot.

According to my experiment, these are the requirements for the robot:
  • It must have an ultrasonic sensor or an advanced camera capable of detecting obstacles.
  • It must be programmable (duh), preferably in C++.
  • It must have some amount of onboard storage or the ability to use an external storage device. It must be capable of reading and writing files from and to storage.
  • I would prefer for it to be under $500. I'm not sure how much I can get in research grants.


So, any suggestions? So far I think a Lego Mindstorms NXT could have what I need, but it's not programmable in C++ (not directly, anyway), and I don't know what its file I/O capabilities are.

I'd like to be able to figure out what I want now just so I can get a ballpark figure on how much I need in funding.
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Gandalf20000
Sep 27 2012, 12:43 AM
I'm enrolled in a research and design class at my high school, and the particular project I'm personally doing is some basic machine learning research and experimentation. I'll be doing two separate experiments, but for my second experiment (which should start in January), I need a robot.

According to my experiment, these are the requirements for the robot:
  • It must have an ultrasonic sensor or an advanced camera capable of detecting obstacles.
  • It must be programmable (duh), preferably in C++.
  • It must have some amount of onboard storage or the ability to use an external storage device. It must be capable of reading and writing files from and to storage.
  • I would prefer for it to be under $500. I'm not sure how much I can get in research grants.


So, any suggestions? So far I think a Lego Mindstorms NXT could have what I need, but it's not programmable in C++ (not directly, anyway), and I don't know what its file I/O capabilities are.

I'd like to be able to figure out what I want now just so I can get a ballpark figure on how much I need in funding.
Get yourself a rapberry PI. quite difficult but has alot of brunt.
Or
If you need something lighter.
Get a arduino.
-It's AVR based easy to flash over usb cable.
-Has a c++ interpreter.
-Supports many modules and shields.
-Hundreds of tutorials and examples online.
-prices... depending on the model and make the basic arduino can be quite cheap some even in a kit.. that may be a effort to solder when it comes to the SOC.

But pre built shields and arduino's are not that much more expensive.

The adruino sounds like what you need.. it can be interfaced with many devices
It can even be used as a ISP to program similar or other chips for future projects.
You can even string them together to make clusters of cpu's... or a makeshift expander.
Very powerful Kung Fu

You are welcome.
http://hackaday.com/category/arduino-hacks/
Edited by luenardi, Sep 27 2012, 01:04 AM.
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I may look into an Arduino board, but I don't want to have to waste precious time (According to my timeline, I've only got about a month to rewrite my AI designs to work on the robot) messing with special components that may or may not work with my luck. I'll research some prebuilt robots.
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i think the boe-bot may work, but I haven't looked at it in a while. I think the interface is C++, but there is outside circuitry that you need to mess with. supposedly, it supports custom sensors and has a USB cord. other than that, look into luen's suggestion more than mine :P
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What do you guys think about this one? It's compatible with C++, has onboard storage, and is relatively inexpensive. It looks like I could buy an optical sensor or a sonar range finder to expand the device to make it useful for my purposes.
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Gandalf20000
Sep 30 2012, 06:13 PM
What do you guys think about this one? It's compatible with C++, has onboard storage, and is relatively inexpensive. It looks like I could buy an optical sensor or a sonar range finder to expand the device to make it useful for my purposes.
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2153
on a Mbed.

Good idea.
I have a chip like that.
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2150
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