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Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots. Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics, and software. You may also consider asking your question on *robotics* Stack Exchange: https://robotics.stackexchange.com/.

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots and computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.

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Spawning new robot in running ROS Gazebo simulation

The problem statement is in simulating both 'car' and a quadcopter in ROS Gazebo SITL as mentioned in this question. Two possibilities have been considered for the same which is as depicted in the image. (Option 1 uses 6 terminals with independent…
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Suggestion for Neural Network for Table Tennis Robot

based on my last question I built a 3D-Game in which two robot arms are playing table tennis with each other. The robots have six degrees of freedom. The states are composed by: x, y and z-Position of the Ball 6 angles of the robot All values are…
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Arduino radio frequency receiver does not work with motor shield

Micro-controller : SainSmart Mega 2560 Motor Shield: Osepp Motor Shield V1.0 I am trying to implement Radio Frequency communication on my wheeled robot however when the motors are running the radio frequency code will not receive messages. The…
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ORB_SLAM installation on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04

Is it possible to install ORB_SLAM/ORB_SLAM2 on last version of Ubuntu (Xenial 16.04) without black magic? I know that the recommendation is to use Ubuntu 14.04 according to https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2, but I currently have last version and…
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Robotics Maze Representation in C

So I'd like to represent a rectangular maze of say dimensions 5x4 (rows x columns) using a 2D array in C language. However I am having trouble specifying what actually needs to be put into the 2D array. int a[5][4] = { {}, {}, {}, …
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Contour Detection in Opencv Python 2.7

I have been trying to identify the contours of red colored objects in Open Cv (python 2.7) and we have succeeded in identifying them. But, I want to detect the position of the red colored object (left or right) and I have not succeeded in doing so.…
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How to demo examples of embeded systems?

It seems that a lot of small business people have a need for some customized embedded systems, but don't really know too much about the possibilities and cannot quite envisage them. I had the same problem when trying to explain what Android could…
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Looking for an algorithm for robot navigation

I have a mobile robot that has a distance sensor attached to a panning servo motor. The motor rotates continuously to move the sensor from 0 to 180 degrees and back. The distance sensor sends a signal every few miliseconds to scan its surroundings…
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Revolute joints jump out of frame - vrep, bullet engine

We have a simple robotic model with revolute joins in v-rep. The joints are in force/torque mode, and they are controlled via non-threaded child script using simSetJointTargetVelocity function of the simulator. The collision is enabled in the model,…
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Angle to a circle tangent line

I cannot upload pics so I will try to explain my problem the best. I want to simulate the detection of a moving object by a unicycle type robot. The robot is modelled with position (x,y) and direction theta as the three states. The obstacle is…
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Custom robotics for building an auto CD-loading arm

Where would you recommend that I find a company to develop or buy a CD/DVD loading arm similar to: http://www.dextimus.com/ Preferably programmable via USB but if I only can get one with a serial interface that would be fine. Drivers dont matter - I…
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Task Space Vs. Configuration Space

In robotics, what is the difference between Task Space and Configuration Space? I know that the configuration Space is the set of all reachable configurations for the robot. But I am not sure what does Task Space represent.
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how to create a graph from captured image of maze

Hai I am developing a robot for shortest path finding. This system consists of the mobile robot, trajectory planner, motion controller, visual sensor (CCD camera), ZigBee wireless communication device and a maze terrain. The camera is used to…
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how does SLAM extract landmarks?

In the "slam for dummies" tutorial, laser scanner was used, and two methods of landmark extraction were shown. But most practical SLAM implementations are based on camera images. In these applications how are landmarks extracted? The Durrant-Whyte…
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How to connect usb webcam to ev3?

I would like to connect an USB webcam to my EV3. is it possible to do that? and how can I do it and how can I reach the cam from my code? I use Labview for programming and thanks in advance :)
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