CS 495 Special
Topics: AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Winter 2000, Instructor:
Jeffrey Horn
Assignment 2: Servo Control
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Handed out NOW (Wed. 1/19/00), and due Friday, 1/21/00)
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Group assignment, groups to be determined in class
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Servo Experiments:
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Grabber (3 servos): Use mini-gripper to pick up,
move, and drop a tool
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Dave ritter, Vance Sykes, Russ Langkawel, Rob Monroe, Calder
Duncanson
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R/C Car (2 servos): Control servos for steering
and speed controller
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Mike Z., Tony Glines, Renaye J., Sarah Larson, Ryan Deiter,
Justin Marth, Ben DuPont
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Carpet Rover (4 servos): Control all four servos
on carpet rover directly from PC, bypassing the First Step (Basic Stamp
I) microcontroller.
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Dave Newman, Sean Hosey, Keith Rutkowski
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R/C Boat (2 servos): Control servos for steering
and speed control
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Other tasks:
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Servo Controller Research:
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Go find out alternative servo controllers to our Mini SSC
IIs from Edwards
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See the RS&T, and Circuit Cellar ads, robot web sites,
etc.
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Set up web page with links to all controllers, and show some
comparison, analysis, recommendation
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Embedded Processor Research:
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Same as above, but for our next processor, as an alternative
to Basic Stamp and to RT/linux
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R/T Linux Processor Research:
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Demo your final product to class Wed (1/26) or Thur (1/27).