Robotics

Creative Robotics Workshop

Part of the "Creative Coding Workshop" Series MFACSA program, Goldsmiths computing department.

1/03/2011 - 29/03/2011 14:00 - 17:00

GDS - Ben Pimlott Building Capacity 10 participants

http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/MFACSA/?page_id=101 (under construction)

• Introduction to robotics geared towards low-cost, clumsy, attention

seeking, non-utilitarian robotics* Participants will be expected to work in pairs to produce an attention seeking robotic piece using servos and sensors (distance, sound, light, camera, or whatever). Pre-requisite: some programming knowledge (java, c++, python type languages)

The workshop is run and prepared by the Aikon-2 <http://www.aikon-gold.com/> project's research with the support of Dr M. Grierson

Equipment provided:

    5 Bioloid comprehensive kits + zig-bees

http://robosavvy.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=81 <http://robosavvy.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=81>

    5 dedicated laptops (ubuntu/ros/urbi)

Participants can also bring ..arduinos, webcams, kinects or other sensors

The workshop is sponsored by www.robosavvy.com through the AIKON-2 project www.aikon-gold.com

Contact: p.tresset@gold.ac.uk

First session:

 Overview of:
       contemporary robotics.
       robotic art

Demonstrations lead introduction to:

       Robotic software architecture...

       Urbiscript : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URBI#The_urbiscript_Language

(the language used for this workshop)

       Dynamixel: www.robotis.com  (the hardware used for the workshop)

 Project ideation.

       Ideally participants will come up with initial ideas for their

projects

The second session

  Introduction  to ROS (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROS_(Robot_Operating_System))

  More Urbiscript

  After  the lectures' content will depend on the nature of the projects

proposed

Lesson One

robot: machine - plant - automata - robot
actuators - sensors autonomy
walking - flying - helping

AX-12 = servo motor for robots
URBI = Programming environment, Universal Robot Body Interface
ROS = Robotic Operating System
Bioloid Kit = http://www.robotis.com/xe/bioloid_en