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This year I have started my Ph. D in mobile robots. My theme is “Constructing a Cognitive Robot for flexible industrial cells”. At my university, our lab enjoys the presence of 6 Amigobots, a P3-AT at P3-DX a Powerbot and a Parolbot (which at this time isn’t functional because of the battery which seems to be dead). In fact, I am pretty much certain that the University acquired the hole production line of Mobile Robots Company, a small business based in US.

Personally, I love Powerbot because it has great power (good name, Powerbot), good stability and my favorite, a 6 DOF (degree of flexibility) arm.

Although all the robots are great in terms of hardware, I’m not very found of the software provided by this company. At the time speaking, my main task is to emulate an interface which will alow working with the Powercube arm in 3D space. There are many cinematic algos on this topic, but Mobile robots  INC. didn’t bothered to emulate either one of them and supplied the arm with only simple degree rotation instructions, so although my theme is not close related, I still got to stick my hands in this.

I found some related work on IEEE site, ACM portal and on SOURCEFORGE - the player project. Hopefully, this will conclude in a driver for Player, but I am really waiting for the Windows version of this free software to be released. I will soon participate to my first conferences in robotic field and guys, be sure, I will wear my MY GREEN CORNER t-shirt there. Also, if all goes well, I will be posting my work results on this blog and keep you informed on my achievements.

I would like to welcome any one of you that has similar interests to post comments, and contact me using the contact page.

Have a great day.