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Message #07414



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SG Sparkyg@seark.net
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1993 00:19:30 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Cleaner Robots


tell us more about the walker that is finished.
also, did you guys decide on a digital compass circuit?
-Sparky


At 10:26 PM 11/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey
>
>> Interesting...
>> how bout insetead of randomly, why don't you go such that:
>> Bot goes along
>> bumps into somehing
>> 90 deg. turn
>> goes straight for the lenght of the bot
>> 90 deg. turn in same direction
>> loop back to top
>How about a digital compass and GPS?
>I'm working on a project now where we're going to have 2 walking robots.=
One
>BEAM and the other HC11 microcontroller. Our first goal is to mainly just
>get them walking on their own with a few basic sensors like tactile and IR.
>We will then hook up the rotating head which sits on the front of the bot
>and contains most of the sensors to help the body track light. (from this
>point on we're not exactly sure what we're going to do. We may then try to
>get the sonar working and hook up a digital compass. Our next goal will be
>to get them to communicate with each other and create some sort of
>cooperative behavior like "you go that way, I'll go this way" in search of=
a
>stronger light source. Just to let you know we finished the basic BEAM
>walker today.
>An idea I had would be to have 2 cooperating bots that as an example would
>seek light. But the cool thing would be that each one only had one light
>sensor. They could use a compass to find out which direction they're facing
>and compare the light levels of the two to find the brightest source.
>
>Laterz
>
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