For each major piece of the hardware, what is the piece's
manufacturer, model name, serial# and UofR Property code#?
Mabel the Mobile Table on P2DX base
Pioneer 2 AT base
Battery Charger
LinkSys Wifi Bits
More LinkSys Wifi Bits
Sony Pan Tilt Zoom Camera, as in Vision Lab.
Stepper and control card, perhaps destined to be part of a cable reel
control system.
Your classic Tektronix oscilloscope.
Joystick for real-time robot remote teleoperation.
COTS digital cam-corder for gathering video sequences for vision
algorithms and for documentation. (Why we don't have any Mabel videos I'll
never understand.)
Situation kind of scary.
Mobile Robot Platform Info at
http://robots.activmedia.com.
There are some
hardcopy manuals on bookshelf, also receipts, packing slips.
We think we need a reel mechanism to manage an umbilical.
This calls for mechanical and controller design we think.
We're looking for info but so far not much found.
HomeGrown (left over from 2002 compettion:
On server, doxygen-generated documentation for Mabel, more to follow
for new modules as written, otherwise I guess it's the various
websites.
e.g.
http://robots.activmedia.com/aria ,
and also
http://sphinx.cmu.edu .
Finereader actually
has a pretty complex license to us as OEM developers.
for Viavoice we're not using the bit you have to pay for.
See above list.
Lab has own Wi Fi net.
Internally, everything communicates with tcp ad-hoc messaging, sometimes
datagrams, and occasional fileio. We thought about firewire camera
connections but have pretty much abandoned them as too esoteric.
Otherwise I guess the hardware
is fairly PC-oriented connectorwise.
Generally this is all COTS stuff and conforms to standard interface
specs, with the proviso that everything seems to change about every
three months...
What pieces of the hardware do we have?
ActivMedia Pioneer 2DX Ser. BDBB 1440 UR prop L9299, L9800 (one is
for onboard computer)
ActivMedia Pioneer 2AT*+ Ser. DFBB1733 UR prop tag (none,)
Linksys Corp: Transmitter Mod. BEFW11S4, Version 2
PC Card WPC11 ver. 3
USB Adapter WUSB11 ver 2.6
What are important urls, addresses, phones and emails?
For the robot platforms,
http://robots.activmedia.com is the place to go.
Images
Where do the pieces live at URCS?
The Mobile Robot lab is currently the "piano room" (Right of
CSB602, across from 601). Key card access.
Documentation
What documentation already exists for each piece and where is it
located (urls, location of hardcopy manuals, etc.,)?
Needed Hardware
What related pieces of hardware do we not have (e.g., special
options, related models that offer more advanced features)?
Collect important urls, addresses, phones and emails.
What bits of related software (libs and apps) do we have at URCS?
Commercial:
Where are are the bits of software (sources/binaries) installed?
A CVS server, should be available to all.
Software Documentation
What documentation already exists for each bit of software and
where is it located (urls, location of hardcopy manuals, etc.,)?
Software Licenses
Aria has a password and Account sort of arrangement, so you have to know a
password (available on the descriptive sheets for the P2AT and PTDX,
on the bookshelf). The Demo
Tutorial mentions one password that will work.
Software Costs
Viavoice we bought but aren't using that bit.
Finereader $1280 (includes big academic discount) for this single
year, probably not renewable.
Software Upgrades
Aria has new releases at website.
We have maintenance and upgrades for FineReader.
Missing Software
We are working at acquiring
Prolog.
Missing Software Acquisition Plan
JiProlog is available for $50
from
http://ugosweb.com/jiprolog and we are in negotiations to get
this guy paid off.
What problem does the hardware address?
Hardware does not address problems. Hardware creates problems.
Mobile Robots do robot hosting, vision, communication, control.
How well does it solve the problem? Pros? Cons?
We'll see, I guess...
What other solutions to the problem exist elsewhere?
Lots of idiosyncratic solutions, research projects around world.
Ancillary Equipment
What other self-contained equipment is used in with the hardware?
In the department? Elsewhere?
Interface Standards
What interface standards does the hardware conform to? Which
connections are proprietary/nonstandard and which are open/standard?
Last update: 03.03.03.