Common Interface for Multiple Robotic Platforms

This project was done as a senior project at the United States Military Academy in order to deliver a web-based platform to control multiple robot chassis through a common interface. An intro to our project and a demonstration of some of its functionality can be found here…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AqxlDRPme98

…we used Chris Bartley’s code for the TeRK project as a starting point, but we added a server as an intermediary step to add increased functionality and to abstract more away from the user (i.e. user doesn't specify IP address and doesn't have to worry about launching the right app to control the correct robot). The qwerk was used to take input from the server (and hence the user) to control the robot, and the serial output from the qwerk was filtered through a robotstix, which integrated many of our sensors and provided semi-autonomy (primarily obstacle avoidance and a force stop if a connection to the server had been lost at this point).

Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by slobdell

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