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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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Local minima in Backpropagation algorithm

The addition of an extra term, called a proportional factor reduces the convergence of the back propagation algorithm. So how to avoid local minima in Back propagation algorithm.
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How is the bug algorithm implemented on an obstacle avoidance robot using the Arduino platform?

The robotic buggy is baed on the arduino mega and has a single ultrasonic sensor at the front with two sharp IR sensors on either side. I want to implement the bug 2 algorithm but I have not idea how to begin. I've looked at the source code on this…
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Quadricopter + arduino+mpu6050(gyro+oscillo) +PID

so I'm trying to creat a quadricopter with an arduino and gyroscope mp6050 and this with PID algorithme (using arduino PID,mpu library) so I make everything work separately but when it comes to use PID I don't know how to do it which one will be…
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Need some tips which localization method to use for my NAO robot (robotic)

for university I'm working on a project in which I have to teach a robot(Nao-robot) play nine men's morris. Unfortunately I'm fairly new to the area of robotics and I need some tips how to solve some problems. Currently I'm working on the…
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Zero Robotics movement code isn't working

I don't understand why this code won't run. I'm writing movement code for my Zero Robotics team, and my current system is to set the velocity target to a factor of the distance for every initial distance from the target position. I'm not looking for…
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Would you help in running robot state publisher?

I had been getting the error I tried to run robot state publisher with this command: ros2 run robot_state_publisher robot_state_publisher --ros-args -p robot_description:="$( xacro -/example_robot.urdf.xacro )" according to this tutorial by…
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text files are empty after I run my script

TL;DR When I run my program it deletes all my txt file data, I do not understand why. I'm making a waypoint editor/saver for my robot arm, and this program is meant to allow me to choose from a 'set' which is just a txt file, and then change or set…
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MATLAB: Peter Corke Robotic Code plot command failling

I am trying to create a code for the purposes of plotting a robot. I am using the Peter Corke Robotic toolbox. So far it seems fairly simple until I came about with the struggle of simply plotting a robot. My code at the moment is as…
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What is the probability that mouse with reach state A before state B

Maze I have a maze as shown above(use the link) and state 3 contains prize while state 7 contains shock. a mouse can be placed in any state from 1 to 9 randomly and it move through the maze uniformly at random Pi denote the probability that mouse…
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How to make a robot to play a video game by Python in Mac OSX?

I am doing research on machine learning, and want to apply an algorithm to training a robot to play a video game. I may want to use Python to implement the agent(controller) so I need a way to take screen shots of the game from python, and send…
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Shortest Path algorithm in line follower robot (Maze solving)

How graph algorithms can be used in line follower maze solving robot. I have solved grid using DFS search but do not know how to implement it actual line follower robot. my shortest path finding implements on a 20 by 20 grid . where s= start and g =…
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Robotic Arm Controlled via Python

I want to improve my programing skills and I thought that to start using physical programing(if that's even a thing) could possible be a great way to do improve it. But I don't know where to start. I want to be able to build and control a robotic…
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Player stage commands

I am writing an algorithm for Frontier Based Exploration in c++ using player stage simulation 2.0 and I am stuck on a specific part. From my understanding the laserProxy provides a 180 degree scan of the environment in front of the robot. i have a…
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How to change this while loop to a for loop in C?

This code is for making a robot in a simulator move in specific paths using C. The code of the while loop is where I need to make changes, I was wondering how to change the code so that the robot moves in a straight line and stop, and how to use…
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Real time programming in C++

I have two C++ classes, objecManip and updater. The updater class has a timer to check the status of the robot arm of my application. If it moving then do nothing, else getNextAction() from the actions queue. The actions queue is populated with…
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