Report 7, Line Follower code

Now we have coded our test chassis to follow a black line on the ground. We are facing some problems following the line on uneven fields but we are working on it ... Our test subject drives around the Robotica lab & stops when it reaches a red line or an obstacle on the way. Film & photos will soon be posted here ...



Our next step is to code our test chassis to drive around & detects objects on its way and the smart enough to drive around them. For this purpose we have bough 4 reflex detectors to have around our chassis. More updates on the way ... Click on read more for the source code in Semi C++ Arduino programing language.

Image Processing

The Image processing part of the Robotic project, in hardware point of view contains a camera and laptop. The laptop is placed inside the robot chassis for Image Processing applications to run on it. The camera is going to be place on an arm which is not exactly decided how it is going to be and how much would we reach to make. But for sure there is going to be an arm, probably with one prismatic and two revolute joint(we are probably going to remove one revolute joint as the robot is able to turn around itself 360 degrees). This will give the camera a very good workspace which would be alittle less than a sphere on bottom and top.

As this project is a summer project and we do not have much time left, we have decided to go for easiest solutions for time being. Everything that makes the project to take one more step toward the goal is acceptable. Now I am trying to find ways how we can broadcast the stream of video we get from Robot’s cameras online. Our choices up to now are as followed :

1. USTREAM.COM website which let you to stream live videos and people are able to watch it online in flash format. It’s not the best choice to make, but it is a possible choice.
2. RealPlayer