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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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Public Key is not available

I am trying to install ROS Kinetic on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspbian GNU7Linux 8 (Jessie) following these steps. Setting up the repositories I get this output: Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring…
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How to make multiple python programs communicate in this situation?

I'm a bit new at Python and I am working on a robotics project. The short form of my question is that I am trying to find the best way (for my situation) to run multiple python programs at once. A little bit of context, my robot is a platform for a…
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Powershell with UiPath

I am kicking off a PowerShell script with UiPath. I need to pass an argument in, from UiPath. Firstly is this possible and secondly does anyone have an example of this? Not sure what the syntax is for this in the PowerShell script
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How to show effectiveness of Erlang for programming Robots?

I am currently pursuing Masters in Embedded and for my thesis I have to study the effectiveness of Erlang for programming Robot. AFAIK Erlang's declarative nature and concurrency can be effective, so I made an Erlang code for "Adaptive cruise…
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Using an arraylist for a state machine

I wanted to be able to add cases to a enum variable state machine like an array list. I did so by creating an array list and using the size to tell it how many cases there are and execute them accordingly with a for loop. The problem is it will…
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How to receive multiple values in Erlang program from C program?

I am using Erlang for driving robot. I am reading sensor values in C program and want to send these sensor values(multiple sensor values) to Erlang program where I can perform computation and control robot. In progam given in Erlang book we can…
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How to multithread/multiprocess just one instance of a particular function in Python?

I'm running a Python script that controls a robot, but I'm a bit confounded as to how to multithread the motor control function. The issue is that the hardware is designed such that the motors won't move unless there are several sleeps in the…
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Robot, stereo vision, driving around and AForge

I am thinking about building a small robot that will drive around, judge distance to objects and avoid obstacles (hopefully it will) - nothing complex, just a home fun project. I am planning on using two webcams to decide distances and track…
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AI Behavior Decision making

I am running a physics simulation and applying a set of movement instructions to a simulated skeleton. I have a multiple sets of instructions for the skeleton consisting of force application to legs, arms, torso etc. and duration of force applied to…
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How to make my robot move in a rectangular path along the black tape?

I am working on a robot, it's part of the summer robotics workshop in our college. We are using C-STAMP micro controllers by A-WIT. I was able to make it move, turn left, turn right, move backward. I have even managed to make it go along the black…
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What is a better approach to have realtime loop and non realtime function at the same time

Sorry for the bad title, I really don't know how to describe that in short... My scenario is that for a robotic application, we need a realtime loop to control the motor every 1ms. While at the same time we may want to do something that does not…
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RobotC - Programming an Elevator

I'm designing and programming an elevator-like robot for a high school project. Could I possibly do anything to make this any simpler? Or better? I have attached a picture of my design that I made in AutoCAD Inventor with labels. For those not…
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python sockets: make sure that TCP packets are send before closing connection

I am working with a relay that is controlled via TCP. As far as I understood the following code is supposed to work: s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect(('192.168.0.200', 17494)) s.send(chr(101)) s.close() However, I…
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Ruby robotic control

How would a person use Ruby to control a robot or some other robotic device?
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Looking for a robot arm simulator

I am working on a robotic project but now I don't have the robot, so I need to continue on a simulator for its gripper and arm movements. I googled but I didn't find a suitable one. I need to give the simulator the cartesian coordinations and to the…
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