stibaer
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Hi there, what would be the best solution if you want your robot to recognice and follow you? Radio? A keyed bluetoothsignal?
I want to build a robot that follows me in a certain distance. Maybe something similar to a wall-e, so I can put my shoppings into him^^
Im happy for any good suggestion and even more for a complete robokit
I am planning to use the color following ability and have it follow an IR LED strapped to my ankle.
Alan
Nice Alan. I was wondering how we were going to do that so when we meet up we can all have them following us around.
How about following sound? Have a Mic on front and one on back and it just follows the direction the audio is loudest. Sorta like a audio compass to follow you. Just a idea
@jstarne1, There is a control in ARC called sound movement that I think is for that, but if you put it on your project it says "not complete" or something similar. Probably something for the future (or the SDK if you can't wait).
Alan
Well maybe it will be a complete feature soon
thx for the nice ideas. problem is, that you cant use sound or visual sensors primary, if you want to build a stalking shoppingbasket ^^
Its too vulnerable to disturbances.
I cant imagine anything working, but some kind of radiowaves to let the robot know, in which direction and how far away you are. Anything else can be disturbed too easy. Can it not? Or can the EZ-camera recognice your back/side/face well enough? I dont know. I dotn have any experience in using cameras on robots yet. Sound/camera/visual signs can be used additional of course to improve it further.
I think the easiest solution could be, if you carry a transmitter on your body, which sends out an encoded signal, for example a bluetooth signal, so that the robot can use his 3 antennas, to measure the distance and angle to you and adapt it.
Maybe even an app for smartphones could be written, so that the bluetooth of the smartphone can be used for that.
That would be the most comfortable solution.
To differ bluetoothsignals it should have an individual key.
Maybe someone has such a solution at hand or there is even a ready solution on the market?
I was actually thinking of making up a T-shirt with a glyph on the back of it, as they can read glyphs. THen it would just focus on the glyph. I are not smart enough yet to figure out the whole transmitter thingy...
!Ilike the idea with the glyph on a t-shirt
That really can be used meanwhile
You also could shave a glyph on the back of your head and the sides.
The face can already be recogniced
How long you think it will take to figur the whole transmitter/bluetooth/wifi thingy out?
Can you recommend some good infomaterial to me? Here in Germany there are nearly no good books etc. about that stuff available. Probably to protect us from ourselves...
I need input. Inpuuuuut! ^^
Btw. Can 2 ez-cameras be used simultaneously to be more efficient? Is there maybe even support of 3d visuals?