Re: [misterhouse-users] er1 update

[Amy <w_h...@co...>]

basic functions:

vision - recognizes objects, calc distance to object, recognizes colors,
obstacle avoidance via second camera or infrared

nav - handles details for motor control.  you just give it commands to move
or rotate.  keeps track of position with dead reckoning/odometer.  motor
power, speed can be changed. can rotate toward or drive toward object or
color.  I use a program called strabo - which stores a map and calculates
paths which i send to mh and mh sends move commands to er1

sense sound level of environment

speech - voice recognition, plays wav files, has a few voices for text to
speech.

also does  little things, email, motion.... these are all things i do with
misterhouse and misterhouse does better job (of course)

the software and misterhouse talk with api and i use misterhouse as the
brains.  there are a few limitations with the api and some folks are using
ersp and python if you are into that sort of thing.

my misterhouse is morphing into misterbot.  x10 motion sensors let robot
know where people are and strabo tells er1 how to get there.

my biggest problem with it is getting a fix for nav.  i think the next step
will be putting a compass on the bot and use Brainstem to tell misterhouse
the heading.

http://www.evolution.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=14169 for the misterhouse
thread for er1

the er1robot.pl file i just posted has all the api commands that can be sent
from/to er1.  that should give you some ideas about what you can do.

battery:  if you are sophisticated enough to use misterhouse, you will soon
outgrow er1's battery.  there are several folk (me included) who build
charging stations to have er1 return to to charge. one cam comes with bot.
good documentation.

dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Rozman" <ro...@fr...>
To: <mis...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] er1 update


> Hi,
>
> at least I am really interested in ER1. I've put it in to buy list for
> christmas. In the mean time, I'd kindly ask if you can describe more
deeply
> how do you use it, what you like or dislike about it. How much time does
> battery last ?
>
> Is it usefull to buy accessories (is one web cam included) ?
>
> Are IOs well documented to connect custom stuff ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Amy" <w_h...@co...>
> To: <mis...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:34 PM
> Subject: [misterhouse-users] er1 update
>
>
> bruce,
>
> not sure where you would like to recieve this, but here is updated
> er1robot.pl for misterhouse.
>
> finished api, added error reporting and fixed some bugs.
>
> dave
>
>
>
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