This is WSSR. It stands for Wireless Security Surveillance Rover. It's a prototype of a security-based robot that I built for a Military Science Competition. For now, it runs using an Arduino and a Pololu Motor Driver Shield. The base is the ever-popular Rover 5 from Dagu. The tracked chassis perfectly suits the tasks for carrying out military-related small tasks. For Surveillance purposes, a smartphone is mounted on a pan-tilt bracket. An android app enables the smartphone to work as an IP Camera and thus, a real-time video can be sent to a specific IP Address which can be viewed through a device connected to the same network as that of the smartphone's. A Lynxmotion Gripper Arm at the front enables the rover to perform tasks such as picking up nearby objects which in turn can be viewed from a close range via the smartphone camera. The smartphone camera can be replaced by any other webcam and the robot can perform face-tracking tasks using Arduino, Processing and OpenCV. The robot and all these devices can be manually controlled. A 6 channel TX-RX pack establishes wireless control over the robot and it's tasks.
Here's a week old picture of WSSR. It has changed a bit right now.
i very much wanted to be in that competition but as i am abroad, i obviously couldnt. Having looked at your bot, i see what i wanted to take to the competition is hugely similar to yours. Anyway, please do post more about how it went and pictures from the comp. i am looking forward to this. thanx.
We built a similar project. However, we installed an Android device onto a RC car and used an IOIO board instead to control it autonomously. Here is the preliminary result:
I have really fallen for that robot of yours. I managed to get the IOIO board up and running, but it seems like there’s more to all of this: OpenCV for Android, Java, Eclipse, Coding an android app, etc. It’s going to be a really exciting journey. And I guess I will be using the Rover 5 platform or maybe a custom 4WD base. Shoudn’t be much of a problem as that’s just editing a few lines of code. But I am not familiar with Java at all and am learning it bit by bit through a few tutorials. Would be great to hear from you if you have anything to suggest to get the feel for Java, and using eclipse, integrating openCV on Android and all. And thanks for the link to sosci.edu. I have bookmarked that and have gone through it like 10 times. Can’t stress enough how helpful it is. Cheers.
