Name: Patrick Goebel
Member since: 2009-09-14 23:25:55
Last Login: 2012-02-06 20:23:58
Homepage: http://www.pirobot.org
Notes:
My academic background is in Physics, Mathematics and Cognitive Psychology in which I hold a PhD. My dissertation concerned a connectionist neural network for controlling a limb with multiple degrees of freedom. I now work as a system administrator and web developer but discovered the field of hobby robotics about 4 years ago. Since then I have been working on a project I call Pi Robot which is described in more detail at my website, http://www.pirobot.org. I've learned a great deal from all the folks here at robots.net and I hope I can contribute something of value in return!
Recent blog entries by Pi Robot
For those of you getting started with ROS, I have written up a do-it-yourself tutorial for tracking a colored object using a web cam and AX-12 pan and tilt servos. You can find it here:
ROS by Example: Visual Object Tracking
In this short article on using SLAM with ROS, I have posted a couple of videos showing Pi Robot mapping out part of an apartment using a Hokuyo laser scanner and the gmapping package. See
http://www.pirobot.org/blog/0015/
For the past several months, I have been learning the basics of ROS from Willow Garage. At the same time, I have been testing Mike Ferguson's "Poor Man's Lidar" or PML as an alternative to a more expensive laser range finder. The results are encouraging--at least for obstacle avoidance and simple navigation tasks. You can see the report at:
http://www.pirobot.org/blog/0014/
I recently converted most of the C# code for my Pi Robot project to Python. At the same time, I am changing the programming architecture to use message passing among nodes. To get started, I wrote up a little introduction to the topic at:
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- Pi Robot certified motters as Master
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- motters certified Pi Robot as Journeyer
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