Robot Definition and 209 Threads

Pole Climbing Robot, Please Help!? Hi, I have been given a project for Mechanical Engineering 1st year. We have been given no ideas and I cannot go to the lecturers for any help and I do not have any previous knowledge even on the basics. Guidlines are as follows:"Design an robot capable of...

Hello! Me and my team are working on a two-wheel simple robot having two motors and 12v 1.5amps supply for a small intra-college robo-race. The wheels are 10cm diam. and we have a cylindrical body between the two wheels with 8cm diam. The setup is all wired, nothing wireless( with the remote...

I want to get into robotics but need a starting point. I am wondering what particular robot kits i should buy first and where I should buy them! Any online sites that any of you guyz favor? Thanks for your time :)

Hey guys I'm building a robot and just finished all the circuit work, and am now working on programming it. I got all the basic movement functions down, but am having trouble with a few things. How do you make it turn..fast? i can make it turn but its horrible. Also i have two light sensors put...

I'm having some trouble working out the required torque for a motor to lift a robot arm for my university project. My design is cable driven so all the power has to be transmitted thorugh cables with motors at the base. please could anyone help me work out how much torque is required to lift...

Some one has put a devise in me and you clever people of the world may be my only saviour. It must have cost a fair bit because it can move around,inflict pain and irritations to say the least. The point is,if its metal, Mri scan is out. X ray,ive tried no show(it moves) Would trying to take...

Hi I am trying to designing a robot arm but am having problems calculating the torque required to drive the main shoulder joint. The arm is 700mm long and weighs 3Kg with a mass on the moving end of 6Kg. The arm is required to rotate repeatedly through 180deg then reverse back to the starting...

i m a college 2nd yr student of electronics branch.. line following robot is my project which microcontroller should i use...? intel 8085..(or any 85 family)...or PIC16C74A..(or any PIC family)...or...? on what basis should i choose...actually i m a beginner...? somebody please help...!

Some of you are familiar with the US FIRST Robotics organization, a program that introduces robotics to high school students. This years game/task involves playing on a surface that is VERY SLIPPERY, intended to effectively simulate "floating" in 1/6th Earth's gravity as if the robot was on the...

hi ! i want to build a LFR but i dnt know where to start from...cud u please help me in getting the proper guidance.i need proper circuit diagram for building it out...it is my final year project n hav to submit in less than 10 days... i want to a microcontroller,ULN2803,IR sENSORS etc...nw...

Hey PF, I want to resurrect an old robot radio I have sitting around. What exactly is involved with building an AM/FM receiver?

Hello everyone, I am a researcher for a robotic soccer project, and I am developing a guidance algorithm in which I need to be able to predict the position of our robots over time, given only that they have a constant acceleration. These are omnidirectional wheeled robots, which means they...

Hi, I have a college project running for which I have to design an automatic car refuelling cell. This includes automatic robot positioning, automatic payment, assisted car alignment et cetera. I like to stress that neither I nor my fellow students are mechanical or electrical engineers...

Last spring I worked with my daughters FIRST robotics team. We did not do so well in the regional competition last spring. But yesterday 25 Oct we were part of a informal competition held at OMSI in Portland. There were 16 teams from around the Willamette Valley competing. Due some bad luck on...

Hello. I'm coding a controller for a two wheeled robot whos speed and angle is determined by the velocity of it's two wheels. The problem is, my code does calculations using speed (mm/s) and angle (radians). So I need someway of converting that speed and angle into the velocity of the...

I am working on a robot which moves by tracking white lines. I am stuck at making a logic for making correction to robot incase it goes a little astray. How many sensors atleast will I need and where they should be placed assuming that the base of the robot is square or rectangular. My idea was...

hello , first of all , let me describe my problem... i want to design a robot that will kick a foot-ball . the "leg" is a rod (that looks like a hammer) and it has a torque spring. my question is - what are the equations and assumprions that need to be taken in order to calculate what...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw" The lyrics and video had me laughing so hard. Very well done. I want one of those robots!

hi, i am doing a small presentation on the history of robots and found loads of fake robots. The best is boilerplate robot..which dates back to Victorian age even before differential engine was invented. So i will be happy is some one helps to identify the hoax...

Now if I could just get one to fix my breakfast.:wink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf5szwz6Qzc&feature=related

Hello everyone, I am attempted to calculate the top speed of a robot on ramp, given a specific gear ratio and ramp angle. I have attached an excel spreadsheet with all the given information, equations, and logical steps. The final numbers do not seem right when the gear ratio is varied...

I am building a robot for a design class. Part of the design includes a wheel base to drive the robot forward. To accomplish this I was going to attach a spur gear system to a wheel axel and drive the input gear with an electric motor. The gears themselves will be made out of acrylic and cut...

Homework Statement I have a device with two links (see attached diagram). The device uses the joint angles to determine the position of the end effector (x,y). a) Potentiometers are 2% accurate. Find the maximum endpoint error for the device. b) If you use optical encoders, how many...

I'm currently designing the mechanism for a basic cylindrical robot arm. It must be capable of lifting max 2kg of item. The robot arm looks like ST Robotic R19 model. It moves in X and Z direction plus rotation at base and arm. The robot should looks like the attachment below. Can u please...

I want to make a small robotic arm and control program like the kind schools use to teach kids about robot arms. I need alittle guidance though, I only know how to use C++ to say "hello world!". How would one go about making a computer program to control a stepping motor? And how do I choose...

I have a question that could be rather far out, but potentially doable as well. I am building a robotic book scanner and I plan on using some kind of arm to pick up an individual page in order to turn it. However, because of the nature of pages sometimes wanting to stick together, it might...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7951038502689013454&q=How+to+Survive+a+Robot+Uprising&total=4&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Not only is the video quite funny, but it makes you think...for a while. Provided a robotic uprising, how do you think that humanity could...

Ok, so I am spose to build a robot for physics class as the last project. Me and my friends thought we should build a RC car with an LED heart on the top. THe problem is we are in need of direction. Does anybody know what is needed and what needs to be done to build a small RC car? If so please...

If a man's wife says she doesn't mind if he pleasures himself with artificial devices made for the purpose of sexual activity, but she does tell him not to be unfaithful by having sexual relations with another living creature, then at what point should she detest the idea of him having sexual...

The premise of the last book in a trilogy by Asimov deals with the ethical and moral question "Is it murder when a highly advanced robot is completely destroyed by a human or another robot"? from: http://www.answers.com/robots%20of%20dawn The "Robots of Dawn" is the last in a trilogy by...

I'm working on a developing a position control system for a robotic shoulder joint driven by a DC motor. To simplify, the robot arm can be viewed as being in a fully extended state. I have now reached a stage where I can no longer ignore the affect gravity has on the torque generated by the...

At first I thought this was a stop-motion hoax!

Hey, I'm working on a project with RoboJDE and java and I have a few quick questions. What I'm supposed to do is write code so that the camera will find the coordinates of a swatch of color and move accordingly as the swatch changes positions. The robot is supposed to move from side to side...

What do you think of the idea of having a robot for president? :smile: There would be some advantages, you could program it to always take into account the information it receives by the people, it would never act in its own interest. You could program it so that it always tries to avoid...

"Instructional Robot" Design Project Please assist me in answering some questions I have regarding my design project. I must design a robot capable of being used as a demonstrative tool in Universities and Colleges for demonstrations in robotic control. This robot will carry a robotic arm...

I just noticed as I was writing my research paper on perpetual motion, as I was going over the laws of thermodynamics, I realized that it is like the plot of I Robot. In I robot, the 3 Laws the robots must follow is like the laws of thermodynamics. The robot/computer program security system...

I have a robot kit, the robot uses four servos to walk, controlled by a micro control board, the basic control programs come with the compiler, the first stages of programing, "centering the servos", went ok, but the next stage which should operate all four servos at once to a set...

Well i bought this robot kit and every thing progressed ok until the last stage of construction, vital parts are missing, well that's not to bad i made the missing parts, the next stage is programming, ouch ,it is just so vague, the first stage "centering the servos went ok", but then it...

Hi. I have built a web cam robot that you can control from any pc in the world. I have equiped it with paintball and laserdome weapons and a red dot aim. http://media.putfile.com/Tank_paintball_1 Do you think it would be interesting to have a Internet game with real webcamrobots...

Has anyone built one? not a humanoid, but some thing that can do a few tricks, i want to have a go, but the programming side worries me and i have limited cash, some kits use electronics based on the stamp chip others the pic, which is the easiest, i want to design my own mechanics using...

I came home from work, made my own dinner and had a cup of coffee, i sat for a while then wondered what she is doing, so i went upstairs and there she was, in the bed room, she was just sat there humming and blinking now and then, i though oh no not again, in an attempt to snap her out of...

Hi guys, my friend and I are creating a remote control pingpong collecting robot and so far we have the basics to make it move forward and backward; however, I have no clue in how to clean up this mess of the wires flowing from the motors to the remote. Any help is appreciated and I'll include...

I am programming a robots movements(virtual robot not a physical, like a game) its a contest, I asked last year students that did this contest and there robot got to 4th place by a fluke, their robot did random stuff :smile:. I'm in high school grade 11. University students are also...

I am thinking of participating in Intel this year. I was thinking of making a two-legged walking robot but I don't think it is going to seem challenging enough to get me in the finals. Does anybody have any other ideas? My main interest is in physics and electrical engineering.

Hello, I would like to build a basic automated robot. Is there any recommendations on what resources I should look at? Edit: Currently, my objectives for the robot is: -Ability to move along a 2-D flat surface (with wheels) -Able to pick up and transfer an erasor (using optical (IR)...

Why does this sound like the beginning of something really scary? http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1403780,00.html

These are really neat! http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/videoclip/ http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/200412-run/ http://unoriginal.co.uk/footage16_4.html

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prwebxml159636.php This article disusses a project, in which the robot self-built , and self-programmed. How long before it turns us off? This is an old question, but with all the Rf in the air these days, how long before the singularity occurs where...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.htm a few thousand individual cells, rat neurons, placed on a Petri dish with 60 built-in electrodes, spontaneously connect themselves to form a neural network which is capable of controling things* and modifying its behavior as a...

Hi, I've asked someone to make me a parabolic mirror for a robot and they want to know the 'mirror gain' i would like. Does anybody know what 'mirror gain' is? thanks