BrainBot - Voodoo Control
One of the things we're trying to do is build demos of BrainBot* doing interesting tasks. We're doing this to show that the hardware platform is capable, and thus is worth writing extensive software for. The easiest way to control a platform like BrainBot at this stage is remote control. However, controlling arms and grippers using a joystick doesn't work very well for performing complex tasks.
One of the researchers at the Brain Engineering Lab came up with the idea of "voodoo control", which basically involves manipulating a second BrainBot robot to control the first one. You move the arm of one robot, and the other robot's arm moves in the exact same fashion. I spent the last couple days building a "voodoo server", which allows this to work. In the following video, the tracked-base BrainBot is fully wireless, running off battery and with the bus communications done through wifi. The second robot is connected directly to a USB port of my PC.
*The BrainBot project is directed and funded by the Brain Engineering Lab and Neukom Institute at Dartmouth
One of the researchers at the Brain Engineering Lab came up with the idea of "voodoo control", which basically involves manipulating a second BrainBot robot to control the first one. You move the arm of one robot, and the other robot's arm moves in the exact same fashion. I spent the last couple days building a "voodoo server", which allows this to work. In the following video, the tracked-base BrainBot is fully wireless, running off battery and with the bus communications done through wifi. The second robot is connected directly to a USB port of my PC.
*The BrainBot project is directed and funded by the Brain Engineering Lab and Neukom Institute at Dartmouth
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