From: Hans-Dieter B. <hd...@in...> - 2013-06-21 08:05:45
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Dear all, the RoboNewbie project with programs and introductory materials is now online: http://www.naoteamhumboldt.de/projects/robonewbie/ The main objective is broad usability with minimal requirements, such that users can make first experiments without deep knowledge about robots. Efforts are minimized by simple structures and easy access to relevant features, while non robotic aspects are encapsulated. Using SimSpark, RoboNewbie provides interfaces to the simulated sensors and effectors of the Nao robot, and a simple control structure. The framework and the examples are implemented in JAVA with detailed documentations and explanations. That makes it useful even for beginners in Robotics. Besides other examples, a simple soccer playing robot demonstrates the architecture and the features. Users are encouraged to extend it by different means. Since the efforts to start with RoboNewbie are minimal, we hope that it can support interested people and introductory courses starting on the level of secondary schools. Some of them may later find motivation to go into deeper research and hopefully to join RoboCup. The programs were written by Monika Domanska ("Nika") as part of her diploma thesis - unfortunately she has now disappeared for work in industry ... Thanks are due to the RoboCup community for continuous help and inspiration, especially to the teams magmaOffenburg (parts of their programs were adapted for RoboNewbie) and to Berlin United - Nao Team Humboldt, and personally to Yuan Xu and Stefan Glaser for answering many questions. Best regards and hope to see you in Eindhoven Dieter |