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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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Deciding on the covariance for a Kalman Filter matrixes

I am beginning to explore using probability in my robotics applications. My goal is to progress to full SLAM, but I am starting with a more simple Kalman Filter to work my way up. I am using Extended Kalman Filter, with state as [X,Y,Theta]. I use…
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Autonomous robot location detection indoors

I've made a robot controlled by Arduino and Processing, that moves in a room by rotating itself (like a sphere). What I need is to be able to get the new location once it moves on the floor (let's say within a 3m x 3m room). I'm using a 9DOF sensor…
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How to use CCR, DSS, VPL (aka Microsoft Robotics Development Studio) outside robotics?

How to use CCR, DSS, VPL (aka Microsoft Robotics Development Studio) outside robotics? I am looking for guidance in this field. I have tried all the examples and find the framework intriguing. Can anyone post other uses and examples, outside…
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Potential field method : Real Robots

Potential field method is a very popular simulation for Robot Navigation. However, has anyone implemented Potential field method on real robots ? Any reference or any claim of using the method in real robots ?.
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Haskell for Robotics

I am looking up on web about Haskell and its applications. Basically i trying to learn functional programming language and i see Haskell is very famous among them. What i want to know is, is it possible to use Haskel as substitute for c in robotics?…
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How to avoid that the robot gets trapped in local minimum?

I have some time occupying myself with motion planning for robots, and have for some time wanted to explore the possibility of improving the opportunities as "potential field" method offers. My challenge is to avoid that the robot gets trapped in…
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Quadcopter PID controller

Context My task is to design and build a velocity PID controller for a micro quadcopter than flies indoors. The room where the quadcopter is flying is equipped with a camera-based high accuracy indoor tracking system that can provide both velocity…
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streaming video to and from multiple sources

I wanted to get some ideas one how some of you would approach this problem. I've got a robot, that is running linux and uses a webcam (with a v4l2 driver) as one of its sensors. I've written a control panel with gtkmm. Both the server and client are…
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Trying to filter (tons of) noise from accelerometers and gyroscopes

My project: I'm developing a slot car with 3-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, trying to estimate the car pose (x, y, z, yaw, pitch) but I have a big problem with my vibration noise (while the car is running, the gears induce vibration and the track…
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Pathfinding with teleporters

I'm working on a project with a virtual robot (Turtles in the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft), where the robot would be in a maze of tunnels and have to navigate around in them. The world is conveniently already divided into tiles (a 2D Cartesian…
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Associating s/w programming with h/w programming

I've been in s/w programming for years. Thru out the years i also had interest in h/w programming (circuits + robotics + etc). Please advice from where i can start h/w programming. my aim is to combine both s/w & h/w to work together.
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Hardware to use for 3D Depth Perception

I am planning on giving a prebuilt robot 3D vision by integrating a 3D depth sensor such as a Kinect or Asus Xtion Pro. These are the only two that I have been able to find yet I would imagine that a lot more are being built or already exist. Does…
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C++ Inverse Kinematic Algorithm / library which includes method for IK when position of several nodes in chain known

I am looking for ideally a c++ library / code (but if not at least an algorithm) that solves the IK problem for a given chain of n nodes, of which estimates for the position of k nodes (where k < n) in the chain are known. Any help much appreciated.…
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How to calc a cyclic arc through 3 points and parameterize it 0..1 in 3d

How can i calculate an arc through 3 points A, B, C in 3d. from A to C passing B (order is taken care of). Most robot arms have this kind of move command. I need to simulate it and apply different speed dynamics to it and need therefore a parameter…
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Robot Motion in Python

I am trying to program a robot to move. The robot moves based on where currently is. There are four places where it can be: LOCATION1 Motion Plan is like so, 5 6 3 4 1 2 Initial positon is (x1,y1) This gets coded as…
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