As of Wednesday(07/06/2011) we had our simulator working to where we spit out a score for the robot on how well “it did”. The score keeps track of the Lifetime of the robot (how long it was moving around in … Continue reading →
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Occam-pi to Java
Before we can start evolving new ‘brains’ for our robot, we need to translate our occam/Plumbing code into Java using JCSP. By using JCSP we are able to create a replica of our robot in the Simbad simulator. The first … Continue reading →
Adding Bounding Boxes
As am I getting back into the swing of writing code in java once again, I am expanding my coding skills by adding bounding boxes around all of the possible lights in each room. At first, we wanted to create … Continue reading →
Eren’s Introduction
My name is Eren Corapcioglu. I am a senior at Centenary College with a Math major and Computer Science minor. I recently declared my Computer Science minor after I took the introductory course in the fall of 2010. As soon … Continue reading →
Evolving a Robot Control Network
Kathryn’s last post is spot on; we’re diving into an exploration of AI this summer, specifically with respect to robotic control. Specifically, we’re interested in using genetic algorithms to evolve a process network to control our robotic firefighter. Taking that … Continue reading →
Candle Search AI
The vacation part of summer is over and now let’s program some more robots! Our first robot did great at the competition in April, but now that we’ve gotten our feet wet, it’s time to dive into the more complicated … Continue reading →
Call it a success!
I have been diligently working on the robot as of late and have had absolutely no time to blog. I didn’t do a single piece of class work last week so I could have time to complete the robot before … Continue reading →
Legos, Walls, and Occam
I have been pretty busy since my last blog post. For one, we now are working with the new 6-volt motors, these can work much better with our motor shield and will last longer with higher voltages applied to them. … Continue reading →
State Diagram
Here is the state diagram that will help us to write the code for our robot. This is all the robot could possibly have to do to find the flame. The numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 refer to the … Continue reading →
Look, ma, no USB cord!
The first thing I did this week was play with the flame sensors in order to see what the values would be like. Sitting in a classroom with florescent lights had my sensor jumping to random numbers and I didn’t … Continue reading →