We finished the two-way wifi communication between two esp32. Based on our experiment two days ago, in order to easily and quickly debug our PID paramters. We need to find a good way to tune those parameters and receive the information from the blimp for debugging purposes. In the following v...
The reason we failed tonight: (1) Space decoration: it took us 40 mins to setup everything (new floor lamp, super long power strip, table, blimp, chair and so on) It sitll not a good setup. For example, the power strip is at the center of the field, which is easily stumbled. Th...
The FORAY team is presently working on the integration of tasks for the individual blimp. This includes ball detection (presently using color detection for the prototype), ball capture (using the basket and a LIDAR+camera system), goal detection (presently using April Tag detection and shape detecti...
I have been going through the RoCo codebase and have become familiar with the architecture. The main problem I faced was with adding new builder files from Jill's RoCo repo to the original RoCo that I had forked. Even after manually calling the builders and the generating the corresponding yaml file...
We studied the cooperative localization algorithm in multirobot systems before. However, when we want to apply the algorithm in the realistic multirobot system, a lot of realistic issues need to be addressed. One of the critical issues is the assumption in communication. Wireless Communication and...
For the next week, I will spend most of my time on preparing the manuscript for RoboSoft conference. The manuscript is about crawling origami robots that use a printable oscillator as a simple embedded controller and actuator. The deadline is Oct. 25th, I will finish the first draft by Oct. 16th and...
We figured out a new way of doing image detection. In this way, we should be able to use the computational power of laptop to detect objects using trained machine learning algorithm. Here is the overall flowchart: We tested the RF communication part in the lab: It works exceedingly bette...
Simulation playground decoration progress： We attached April tag with the square hoop and hang them at the ceiling. Since there is a strong wind coming out of the wind tunnel on the simulation room, we used a plate to block the wind tunnel. (Effect see demo 1:) Demo 1: Strong wind disturbance...
Simulation room decoration: We hang the net at the ceiling We tested the floor lamp in the simulated space We implemented the April Tag recognition there. Video is from yesterday:
Demo: Blimp recognize and move toward an April tag [x] Camera is capable of identifying the April tags below the goal [x] Blimp is capable of moving toward an identified goal [x] Test the range and performance of this capability [ ] Blimp can conduct rotation and vertical motion using the Ap...