Saturday, October 23, 2010

Clean Sweep: An Autonomous Table-cleaning Robot -- GS, 2005


The robot has been programmed to seek out objects (cups) while roaming around a table. Once an object is spotted, the robot moves forward and grabs the object with a Gripper. It then searches for the edge of the table, where it drops the unwanted object to the ground. A piezo buzzer mimics the sound of the falling object. The robot is triggered to start moving by shading a photoresistor.

An onboard wireless video camera records the action from the robot's point of view. Both the human view and the robot view are shown in the video.

Robodyssey Systems manufactures the Mouse robot, Gripper, and RAMB II motherboard you see here. The robot's brain is NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller, which is programmed using the BasicX language.


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