Hi!! I made telepresence robot. Device was mounted on the robot:LIVA(small windows PC),Arduino Development language:Processing I have made three programs.(Processing)
1.Robots program 2.UDP Server program 3.Operations program
This system uses the UDP Socket and WebRTC. Via the UDP server on the Internet, this system will exchange audio and video and control commands. Robot from the server It was transmitted at an average 20ms/command. I will by the end of the year, to put "arms" in the robot.
I will exhibit the makers faire tokyo 2014. I am not good at English. XD I will fix it later.thank you very much :)
2015/8/15 1.I've finally implement the arm. 2.Since the master arm control device was made in two days there is a problem with the durability. 3.The server supports the connection of multiple robots. 4.I is creating a master arm control device that is durable. 5.All the program is scheduled to be rewritten in C++.
2015/8/16 HW list
<ROBOT> ·MAIN PC LIVA Intel Bay Trail-M SoC/2GB/Windows8.1 ·SUB CONTROLER Arduino Uno Arduino micro ·WEBCAM Ovrvision http://ovrvision.com/ ·MOTOR Pololu 75: 1 Metal Gearmotor 25Dx54L mm HP 6V with 48 CPR Encoder ·ARM Servo:FUTABA ROBOT SERVO RS304MDFF ·OTHER Monster moto shield USB Speaker: Analog mic:
<CONTROL PC> ·MAIN PC Windows8.1 ·MASTER ARM Arduino Uno Servo FUTABA ROBOT SERVO RS304MDFF ·HMD OculusDK1 ·JOYSTICK Thumb Joystick http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9032
Following the head movement looks awesome. One question – I see there is a slight delay, a lag. I tried the Oculus Rift on once, and I can tell that any lag, even tents of seconds, is immediately noticeable and makes you instantly sick. Do you have this problem with this robot’s camera? Does it feel disorienting?
Exactly. Delay exists. As you can imagine, it is inevitable delay in video transmission over the Internet. Subjects will remember feeling like seasickness. However, a different place, a subject you can experience yourself of one other person is present in a different perspective. Experience of the latter will outweigh the former.
Very nice robot… It looks very well built. I work in wood when I can for robots. I like the little shelves: it looks like you could put sensors anywhere you needed them.
You also have a very nicely organized office, which I don’t have either.
I’ll have to look at this from my laptop because my tablet can’t see your movie. I’m hoping to be able to experiment with telepresence sometime in the future.
I’m sorry. Web site there is , but it is Japanese . English page also is scheduled to make .
I created three programs and hardware alone , there is no time to create a document for the public because it is the creation of a body design . I will rewrite all the program in C ++, is scheduled to be published as a library . My English is poor.XD
This is a great project and I think it has an unimaginable amount of possible applications. If you added a bit of robotics so that the hands could be used to pick things up, move things, turn a dial of flip a switch perhaps? Maybe swap out a hand attachment for various tool attachments? This could be used for all sorts of things where a human presense is needed but perhaps the environment is unsafe to send an actual person. I could see a later version of these robots working in foundries, power plants, diffusing explosives etc. You’re really on to something here. You could even use one of these to care for your house cat when you’re out of town at a convention selling more of them!
