13 Sep

Summer Summary for the Mechanical Logic

Wenzhong Yan

So far, the Mechanical Logic team has completed their first paper and submitted it to ISER2018 (2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics). Thanks for the hard work of Dr. Mehta, Angela and Blaire. The team is able to induce current oscillation through the combination of Bistability...

06 Sep

Mastering Wheel Encoding with Jesse

Eun Sang 'Jesse' Cha

Hello Folks! This time, I am going to blog about my adventures with wheel encoding. I had a few problems (as usual) but solved it as I always do. The IR sensor I used was from Pololu, and I had to CAD out the encoder mount so that the rear wheels of my RC vehicle could be properly measured for wheel...

01 Sep

Crazyflie ROS packages

Amirali Omidfar

For our "off-center spinning mass controller" project, we wanted to control Crazyflie and run several different experiments on our drone. Ubuntu and ROS packages provided us with such platform. So we followed below paper as our guide. Flying Multiple UAVs Using ROS Since our Ubuntu and ROS version...

31 Aug

More on Optitrack system configuration

Amirali Omidfar

Below is the diagram of current camera configuration separating camera network from Internet in order to prevent any interference. Data interference is more likely to happen if additional cameras were added and they were on the same network as internet. (camera data can take up large bandwidth) : ...

30 Aug

SLAM Physical Experiment test v3

Shengkang 'William' Chen

Hers is the demo for full system testing v2 of our SLAM Physical Experiment: 2 robots and 3 landmark with better animation colo_full_test_v3 (1).mp4

27 Aug

Downloadable Book for Paper Car

Tanvi Pati

As we near the end of this summer, Emily and I decided to compile everything we have done so far into one concise document. I made some instructions on how to download the software and upload the code to the car's microcontroller, which can be found in the document. I also included the lesson pl...

25 Aug

Mastering RC car vehicle/tire modeling with Jesse.

Eun Sang 'Jesse' Cha

I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to model the vehicle dynamics and tire properties of my RC car. Here is my full list of references. Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by William F. Milliken and Douglas L.Milliken Vehicle Dynamics: Theory and Applications, Vol 1,2,3 by Reza N. Jazar Vehicle...

23 Aug

Finalizing Classification of Gestures

Cheuk Yin Phipson (Phipson) Lee

This week, we have successfully extracted and defined a list of gestures that are universal to our Furniture object Manipulation API. For this project in particular, we defined and mapped the gesture from 3D Space to 2D Space (mobile touch screen). Using this, we can then let designers determine whi...

23 Aug

SLAM Physical Experiment test v2

Shengkang 'William' Chen

Hers is the demo for full system testing v2 of our SLAM Physical Experiment: 2 robots and 1 landmark. colo_full_test_v2.mp4

18 Aug

Mastering PWM with Jesse

Eun Sang 'Jesse' Cha

Pulse Width Modulation, or PWM for short, is a useful signal used to control servos, electronic speed controllers(ESC) and LED lights. It is an essential arsenal for any roboticist. This blog will be about my adventures with PWM signalling. Along the way, I sprinkle my pro tips. I initially assumed...

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