After completing the PicAXE based Robosapien control unit, I wanted to interface it to Roborealm. Since the PC Robosapien interface I built just takes serial commands and sends out Robosapien IR, it was pretty straight forward to get it working using the serial module at 4800 8N1. I put together a quick arena to provide a good surface and background for the Robosapien and started working on implementing the path planning module to design a path based on an overhead camera looking at a series of waypoints, in this case the Robosapiens bowling pins. The biggest problem right now is that the Robosapien moves around so much from side to side it is difficult to track his orientation relative to the path.
Here is a video of the Robosapien moving under roborealm control. robosapien.avi
There is an excellent tutorial on path planning on the Roborealm website.
There is much more work to be done on this.
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