NXT Project
November 2008 to February
2009
Ludovic Apvrille
Mindstorms NXT(TM)
robots are robots made of a main unit and a set of senors and
actuators. They are sold by Lego for a few years now. Many very tricky
things have been made using the standard kit (see for example that publication).
The project you ought
to do is not that complex, but requires to spend quite a lot of
programming / exploration time on the robot and its interfaces.
Project objectives
The robot you have to build must have the following capabilities:
- Robots are activated with a external bluetooth interface (e.g. laptop or mobile phone).
- Once activated, a robot must move in its current room to build up a map of that room.
- If the robot is not alone in its room, it may collaborate with others to build up the map faster.
- Once the map is completed, it is sent back to the external bluetooth device that has activated the robot.
- A good idead in that project would be to use more advanced
programming interfaces than the one provided by Lego. i suggest trying
to boot RTAI Linux on the robot, for example.
Reports and deadlines
- One report per group has to be sent by email to
ludovic.apvrille@telecom-paristech.fr and daniel.knorreck@eurecom.fr on
Mondays. That report should summarize the work performed last week.
- One final report must be providing, either as a pdf document, or
as a webpage which may include multimedia documents (movies of your
robot in action, etC.). That report must be provided before the 2nd of
February.
- The source code used for your robot
- Your robot itself, i.e. a map explaining how to build it with lego bricks, where to fix sensors, etc.
Project defense are to happen during exam weeks. Each indivudal member
of groups will get an individual grade, depending on the following
criteria: work achieved with regards to objectives, reports -
including weekly reports -, source code, defense.
Groups
- Group #1: Riadh Ghaddab, Abdourrahmane Chraibi
- Group #2: Roxane Billion-prunier, Etienne Péron, Léo Séï
- Group #3: Jules Olléon, Benjamin FROT, Matthieu Gédon