I adapted the Picaxe based Robosapien Control unit by just changing the IR header from 0011 to 0110. I finally found a set of Roboquad IR commands at AiboHack. Later that same day Robert from Robosapien Dance Machine emailed me an even more complete set of codes. roboquadircodes.txt
I initially got the RoboQuad responding to simple commands and then moved to interfacing it with RoboRealm. It turns out that the RoboQuad is a lousy platform for computer vision because it jerks around so much. I mounted a camera on the top of the RoboQuad and spent some unsuccessful time trying to do something useful with it.
Finally I decided to implement voice control for the RoboQuad. I used the microsoft speech SDK through roborealm to detect voice commands and then on those send IR commands through the PicAXE based IR transmitter to the robot. Right now the RoboQuad only understands Forward, Right, Left, Backward, Stop and Again. Here is a video of the RoboQuad walking around under voice command. roboquad.MOV It isn’t quite as smooth as what Robert achieved with his demonstration video, but I suspect that I need to mess with the timing in the speech recognition. There is about a second delay between recognition and sending out the command.
Here is a first stab at embedding a YouTube video:
Here is a video from the camera mounted on the RoboQuadA final video of the Roboquad navigating under voice control using “smoother” voice commands
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