[SC.LUG] Robotics

[Jason Lucas]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 02:07, Ian Molton wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2004 21:57:18 +0000
> Jason Lucas <jason at industrialarchaeology.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Just a thought, but is anyone in the LUG interested in robotics R&D?
> 
> Every time I watch robot wars I think how simple it would be to make one
> that was controlled by a computer.
> 
> my idea would be to have a camera watching the arena in the 'box' and a
> brightly coloured robot. then a simple (very simple) bit of linear
> algebra allows you to de-perspeciveise the arena and let the computer
> see things in 2D. from then on control is a simple matter of allowing
> the computer to control the robot withing an 'envelope' of its known
> capabilities.

True, however I was thinking of something a bit more ambitious than a
robot wars type of machine - perhaps something that could be adapted for
'real world' usage. I'll do a little research and we can throw some
ideas around at the next meeting.

J.