Autonomous Android Vehicles

[nicolas oros]

discussion about Autonomous Android Vehicles...

[Dirk Snoeck Henkemans]

attached is a video of an Android powered i-robot create line follower using opencv and the phones camera.

I also attached my robotic platform that i have built using the ioio. I really loved your paper and it has helped me a lot with my masters. if there is any information that would be beneficial to my masters i would greatly appreciate it.  

[nicolas oros]

cool projects. I'm glad the website/paper was useful to you.

[Al B]

Hi Nicolas,

How are you?

Any new Android based robotic project or robot?

I finally got some spare time and decided to put together a two-wheeled dynamically balancing robot using the IOIO and Android. Here is the preliminary result:

http://youtu.be/xtMCmuR8uNU

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
-Al

[nicolas oros]

Hi Al B,

your robot looks really cool. Two-wheeled robots are really popular these days. 

I've been using the same phone holder since you gave me the link. But for my new outdoor robot, I will be using a solid but slightly more expensive mount:

http://www.amazon.com/RetiCAM%C2%AE-Smartphone-Tripod-Mount-Universal/dp/B00FS5L9D4/

I finally had the time to build a rover based robot using the 4wd Dagu rover 5, its motor driver board, the IOIO OTG, and the same pan & tilt unit I used before.

It's a nice little platform for indoor but it's a bit slow compared to my old RC car ;-)

But I'm going to start building a 6WD wild thumper ABR next week for an outdoor search and rescue project so that should be fun. I'll take some pictures and videos once I'm done.

Best,

Nicolas