Trevor Dobson, Nicholas Williams, Jacob Woods, John Whittet

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• Group 14
• Trevor Dobson, Nicholas Williams, Jacob Woods,
  John Whittet

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Use Case Scenarios

• Search and Rescue
• Exploration of hostile environments
• Autonomous surveillance
• Repair in confined environments
• Assassination
• Search and Destroy

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Event Response Cases

• Robot controlled by User
• Robot accepts commands from user
• Robot returns sensor data to user
• Loss of Network Connection
• Autonomous
• Robot attempts to reconnect
• Robot returns to a location with signal

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Event Response Cases

• Object Interaction
• Robot uses gripper arm to move objects
• Complex Motion
• Robot can move in Arcs
• Robot can accelerate while moving
• Environment Observation
• Robot returns video data
• Robot returns IR Sensor data

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Event Response Cases

• Robot failure
• Robot maintains debug log
• User analyzes debug log
• Robot hardware updated
• Modular GUI program design
• Expandable socket communication interface

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Robot-to-User Architecture
Robot
IBM Laptop
data
TCP / IP 802.11 Wireless Connection
User Terminal
commands
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Robot-to-User Architecture
Robot
IBM Laptop
data
complex commands
User Terminal
simple commands
Debug Record
User
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Simple Motion Commands

• stop
• forward X (in inches)
• back X (in inches)
• turn X (in degrees)
• setVelocity V (in inches/second)
• setTurnVelocity W (in degrees/second)

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Complex Motion Commands

• Acceleration (motion velocity change)
• setVelocity V
• forward X
• Arc Movements (motion turn)
• turn X
• forward X

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Data Feeds

• Video 1 Feed
• Video 2 Feed
• Serial JPEG File Transfer
• 1 second refresh rate
• IR Sensor Feed
• Space-delimited Text
• .1 second refresh rate
• IR1, IR2, IR3, GripperIR, GripperState

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Data Commands

• Video Feed Controls
• IR Sensor Feed Controls

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Data Commands

• Video Feed Controls
• getVideo1Capture
• setVideo1RefreshRate X (Seconds, 0 Off)
• Video 1 Motion Controls (Pan and Tilt)
• getVideo2Capture
• setVideo2RefreshRate X (Seconds, 0 Off)
• Other Commands
• IR Sensor Feed Controls

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Data Commands

• Video Feed Controls
• IR Sensor Feed Controls
• getInfoReport
• setInfoRefreshRate X (Seconds, 0 Off)

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Questions
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Thanks!