Senior Project Biped Robot Pictures

drweird13 · March 7, 2008, 1:54am

I haven’t wrote the software to control the robot yet. The software will be written in Java.

The purpose of this robot is an Artificial Intelligent robot. Sadly it will not be a self contained system, but controlled by a PC. The robot has a microphone and speaker to receive input from the user and verbally respond.

I have been able to walk the robot using Lynxmotion.

sienna · March 7, 2008, 2:01am

Would like to see the videos. How much flex do you see in the sheet metal?

And there is nothing wrong with a robot being controlled by a computer! That being said, where are all the sensors for the AI part?

km6vv · March 7, 2008, 3:01am

Nice work!

I was wondering just a little about the brackets as well. If you incorporate a long fold into them, they’ll be stronger.

I see the SSC32, so I assume you’re talking to it with a serial cable and a PC?

What is the little holder for?

Alan KM6VV

italian_guy299 · March 7, 2008, 3:14am

Nice clean brackets. Shiny.

drweird13 · March 7, 2008, 4:16am

The aluminum does flex, but I think it’ll be fine. If it is a problem, I’ll probably just cut another piece to double the thickness instead of bending an angle into it; I like the look of the flat reflective shine, : ).

The little holder is for a amplified microphone I bought at walmart.

As for the AI, its mostly going to be a chatting robot. I’m going to use Alice (alicebot.org) and AIML so the user can communicate with the robot.

The goal of the project is to have a robot that a user can communicate with much like a personal (pet) humanoid.

Unfortunately I don’t have a video camera, so I can only share pictures.

nimitz09 · March 10, 2008, 5:09am

Looks great! You should try some other stuff, me and my group have made our biped get up from the gound (front, back, and side). It’s pretty easy, just a balancing act but looks real cool.