Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Hi! As I mentioned in my latest post on how to make Tiny Encoders for DC Motors, some time ago I went to a junkyard to salvage two powerful high torque DC motors from car window lifting systems to use in a robot. I had to take my own tools and dismantle the doors from an old Renault Laguna myself  to get the motors and then managed to negotiate with the seller to buy both motors for 25€, which I think was quite cheap.

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Cheap Ball Casters for Small Robots

Hello everyone! :) In the title of this blog I mention that it is also about robotics. However, and to be honest, I've realized that I haven't posted much stuff about it. I hope to fix that in the following posts since recently I've finally finished some robot projects that I have been doing in the past months. Unfortunately I can't publish them yet. Maybe in a month or two :) Anyway, I'll start with a simple post regarding a simple but very useful part for small robots: ball casters!
You can buy ball casters from several robotics shops online and they're not the most expensive thing on earth. However, there are other options that can be cheaper and will save you from the waiting until you receive the ball casters that you may order from shops online. Some of the options fit in the spirit of Green Robotics, which is the idea of reusing and recycling everyday things to make robots. I'm going to show you three options that may suit your needs :) .

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I'll start with the option that I think to be the best of the three that I'm going to talk about. See the shiny metal balls stuck in a white plastic piece? They look really good, don't they? :)

New Publication: Minimalistic Vision-based Cognitive SLAM

Hi! There is a new paper in the Publications section entitled "Minimalistic Vision-based Cognitive SLAM" which was presented today at ICAART 2012 - 4th Int. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, in the Special Session on Intelligent Robotics. You can download it in the Publications section or just click here.

Below you can see the presentation that was used. Hope you like it :)




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