Thursday, December 9, 2010

To do

  • Robots: test new arduinos with new car chassis, must find an h-bridge that is specified for 3.3V, although the l293 that is currently being used at the prototype might work (although it specifies a minimum low logic of 4.5V).
  • Arena: integrate the ARToolkit into the LAR Toolik, test maximum camera height, resolution, and minimum markers size.
  • Xbee: test messaging with one coordinator and several endnodes.
  • Tests: integrate RVO2 Library - Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Real-Time Multi-Agent Simulation into LAR Toolkit!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Related research: Hybrid Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles

Quick reminders

- ARToolKit: just made some tests with this increadible toolkit. I am going to use this to track the robots position and orientation on the arena. Still have to validate this approach, testing camera height, field of view, robustness, integration with the lar toolkit.
- test several xbee messaging: just remembering that I turned off the acknowledge request that was part of a transmit message, this was causing the lag when messages were being sent to a xbee modem that was turned off.