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Title: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: robotnerd on March 02, 2009, 04:29:23 PM

Hola people i was wondering if it is possible to make a robot come to you on romote command while avoiding obsticles if so how
plz dont tell me to try the $50 robot i hae already done it

if you can that would be awesome thnx so much. attached is the most basic picture of what  i would like it to look like i have the chasis built but its the actual serving that i am stumped at.

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: Jdog on March 02, 2009, 08:33:18 PM

The only way I could think of is having some transmitter(radio or whatever else you could think of not infrared) as a remote and having 3 recievers placed on different spots of the robot. Then whichever reciever recieves a stronger signal is the direction it's coming from. Now for the object avoidance you could either have a map pre-programmed into the robot or you could have it do active mapping. I dont know much about it but look into maze-solving robots. This would be a very difficult robot and unless you have the map pre-programmed into the memory, it would be pretty slow service because it would keep looking around in a random manner until it found a good path.

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: robotnerd on March 03, 2009, 06:22:53 PM

well this is for some extra credit in school and i don't think i could download the entire school's map and plus i was thinking about taking it outside of school. is it possible to use a sonar sensor or a sharp Ir ?

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: Jdog on March 03, 2009, 08:33:44 PM

I'm not sure if you could, I'm not experienced in mapping. You might be able to.

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: superchiku on March 03, 2009, 09:31:21 PM

see the member tutorials on butler robot...

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: Joesavage1 on March 04, 2009, 10:11:58 AM

if youve already built the $50 robot, maybe you could work on an expansion for it that could be a butler bot (im sure ill try when im done)

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: Canabots on March 04, 2009, 08:30:24 PM

Maybe this can help: http://narobo.com/articles/rflocal.html (http://narobo.com/articles/rflocal.html)

Title: Re: Need Simple Butler Bot help
Post by: Admin on March 19, 2009, 03:32:42 AM

http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_faq.shtml#robot_track_person (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_faq.shtml#robot_track_person)