Hi Robotmaker we really need to see a video I think as that would help us understand your idea..Hopefully soon

winstn60 YOUR idea looks good having a GLYPH on the ceiling walls but in my my very nice home it will so very bad and out of place,plus my girlfriend said she will move out

Another main reason to have all sensors on board your robot,is if you take it to someone house or school or robot club ,they wont let you place anything on thier walls ,so the design doest really make your robot a autonomous design.

may some dont care of marking up their walls or ceiling ,i cant speak for anyone

Another item about using a ceiling is a fans will make it hard like in my place

@winstn60 I'm far from giving up, I just need the motivation to test out a few ideas. Unfortunately work lately has been demanding so I needed a day without too much thinking.

Out of the sequence of events that needs to be covered I think I/we have a pretty good idea on one or more methods of achieving the task with the exception of navigating to the dock. That event is posing to be the most complex of the bunch but still some ideas that need to be looked in to. Using something on the PC side has always been in the back of my mind but how to get this in to ARC has been the snag. Being still pretty new to ARC I'm still learning the finer points of it, but camera + ARC to find the robot is a great idea which shouldn't be too hard to figure out either.

I'm slowly getting through the list of posts that come up when searching for similar things, I haven't come across the last mile glyph video yet but that's great news that it works.

@robotmaker, I don't think separate topics is the way to go for a lot of reasons. The only problem with this topic being so long is the information being buried and difficult to find however a quick post every now and then with a quick catch up on the ideas, suggestions and solutions solves that. I'll probably end up editing my first post in this topic (#2 on page 1) with a quick and easy reference to the pages where specific information is discussed and the document I mentioned I have started putting together will have all of the information in under the specific headings, laid out, easy to find, easy to understand. Take part of this discussion elsewhere and the chances of it being missed are increased greatly.

Did I understand correctly that you haven't yet used the Pololu beacon with ARC? It's a little unclear. When I asked if there was any success I meant any success with using it and receiving the data in a usable way in ARC. Whether it works with a different controller is neither here nor there as far as I can see, it needs to work in ARC to be considered a confirmed solution.

Robotmaker no I wouldn't have Glyphs everywhere just one next to the charging dock and one wireless camera monted higher up on that can see most of the floor area.

It takes a pic without the robot then compares the original pic to where the robot is at any one time (genius)

I realise its not that aesthically pleasing to have a Glyph on your wall but this is robot building who cares what the lady thinks!

The ones that are married would no doubt dispute that statement, haha.

And thank you for compressing that Rich, if you need logistical help I'll step up.

WINSTN60 do you only have one room in your house,if robot needs a charge how does to get to the room to see the GLYPH With a all in one design is has navigation and home base finder all in one,thats design i am working on. plus the camera doest have to be high up too.

IT is a very tough design

YES i know RICH is is a very simple hook up only 4 digital pins needed and simple code to work with EZB ,pins have a high or low ouput,and will need a code little like the arduino code

DJ told me how to make the EZB code from arduino,only to understand it need to first test using the code some else made and sow it works and any changes

NEED TO TAKE STEP BY STEP on any design testing and then make charges or adapt to EZB

YOU SAID your self RICH that a seperate topic is needed because this one info is hard to understand another 2 examples is winstn60 design and another one i saw posted a link too

And there others making designs and they post them in a seperate topic

Hope you dont think i am arguing with you,i am not ,just what i see