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Step one of getting ready to experiment with NMS was to make Roli run more than 15 minutes on a charge. A little surgical procedure with a dremel, and he now has a 7200 mah battery inside the body.
Alan
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Not sure how big a battery I could squeeze into a Six, but it would be nice to get longer run time from it too.
Alan
Looking forward to your navigation project, because I eventually want to get ARC Pro and try navigation.
I think I could learn from your build, and gain helpful details. I am a little slower learning now, but want to try new things.
Thanks,
Steve S
This is the beginning of my dream for a home robot. There are really three things I want the robot to do, and this can make one of them happen (with some hardware work), and is the beginning of the second.
1) Self dock for charging. I'll certainly be able to make this happen now that I'll be able to set waypoints and have a method (probably a glyph) to line up on for the charger. My vacuum can do it, my robots should be able to as well.
2) Fully autonomous navigation. I want the robot to randomly wander around the house looking for cat toys or motion. Pick up the cat toys, and react to the motion. This is the start of that. I should be able to emulate aimless wandering by setting up waypoint to waypoint paths and vary them. That is why I have been involved in he Lidar discussion because I want good object avoidance. Then I would be able to request that it come to a room by just going to that waypoint. Again, the navigation part is all stuff my vacuum can do, but it is purpose build for this, so I understand why it is taking some work to get ARC to that point with everything else it does too. The recognition of motion or people is also easy in ARC. The recognition of various cat toys and picking them up without me controlling the arm is a challenge, but @Nink is working on a similar project and I expect to learn from his experience. This is also the least important part, although if I can get it working perfectly, it would make my robot vacuum more useful because I would not need to go through the house picking up the toys before letting the vacuum do its work.
3) Follow me, at my heels (like a well trained dog). This will require a different set of skills, although object avoidance will still be part of it. The most promising thing I have looked into so far was an Infrared transceiver kit that Sparkfun sells, where I would wear the transmitter and the robot would try to follow it. It requires soldering on the board, which is a skill I have not mastered, and it is known to not work well outside, so I would need a backup, but I already have the project where I can control my robot from my Android WearOS smartwatch, so that would be OK to help it find me if it gets lost.
Alan
Stay safe!
It is an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 @1.44 ghz with 4gb of RAM. 64gb of main storage and can take a microSD card if I need secondary storage. So pretty much the same as a lot of Chinese made micro PC's. If it doesn't perform well enough, I do have a more powerful micro-PC, but it doesn't have its own screen or battery, and won't fit as nicely in ROLI, but I will probably use it or one like it in the final build (using it on my desktop in the workshop for now and may not want to give that up).
Alan
Nice Build! So are you ready to send it to Mars too
It's the same Intel chip Family (Atom-x5):
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Z8350-vs-Z8300-vs-Z8550_8088_6677_8305.247596.0.html
Latte Panda, Atomic PI, UpBoard., Intel Compute Stick UpBoard, Rock Pi X.
Unfortunately nothing new since 2016.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/cores/cherry_trail
Maybe the Atom-x7 is a little better.
Obrigado, um abraço!
Alan
Alan
I'll be posting some questions/suggestions in the Navigator thread tomorrow with lessons learned having thr Lidar, and my be ordering thr Realsense distance sensor while they are still available. I'll probably be putting thr Ping sensor back on the front too for better front object detection nearer to the floor, but this is the build for now.
Please excuse the sloppy wiring. This is just a temporary test setup, SO I didn't spend a lot of time on cable management.
What you mean with that ? D435i ? The D455 and D435i are the new models, source ?
Alan