Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: University of Florida Robotics

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Posted by Steven Pickles (Member # 785) on 08-09-2004, 09:28 AM:

With all the gadget freaks lurking on Film-Tech, this may be of interest to some of you. The various engineering graduate (and some undergrad) students here at the University of Florida have finished the summer semester of the Intelligent Machines Design Lab (IMDL). The purpose of the class is to showcase the completely student built robots for budgets usually less than $400-$500. All of the robots are autonomous and do not receive instruction from the builder while they are running -- instead they have to adapt to their environments and 'think on their own.' There were a number of solid projects this summer, including one robot that can find a hoop and successfully shoot and make a basketball.

While I took this course in the spring (some Quicktime video) it is interesting to see what current students are bringing to the table. As for my project, Kirby (the robot name) follows the black line to pick up the package. Along the way it reads barcodes positioned on the ground to figure out the easiest way to get each destination. Once the package is picked up (slowly), it knows to travel to the other area and then return home. If the current path is blocked, Kirby can make the necessary changed and try to find another way. It will repeat this action forever and just move the little cardboard back and forth over and over again. I'd eventually like to upgrade this idea into a thesis and have a swarm of robot forklifts working in a simulated warehouse environment. Now imagine if you could get that to move prints...

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 08-09-2004, 09:29 AM:

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on UF

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 08-09-2004, 01:12 PM:

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