Programmable Robots

During the Christmas holidays of 2012 i spent my time creating this simple PONG game . Its too simple a game but it tought me valuable managed gaming programming using XNA 4.0.   I love to do more 2D games. Adding a second 2D game using XNA . This is a Alian shooter game with sound and explosions

Phidget is connected to the PC and controlled through USB. I used a interface kit provided by Phidget to switch on and off a LED light . This is a simple hello world kind of exercise but it opens up lots of possiblitites in home automation  

I started building a RC Plane using the RCPowers.com design. Spent a lot of time and money and atlast the propeller started running smoothly . still i have tons of problems to be solved before my plane starts flying . Here are some sanps   Getting all the parts and making the entire piece work is quite a challenge . Any how now that the peopeller is working i can think of completing this project soon.  

The idea was to create a robot that can be used by a store manager in a store to talk to team members remotely. I have been thinking of creating a completely new environment other than the one provided by microsoft robotics. I tried my best to create this new simulated environment and simulated robot from scratch , i used google sketchup for 3d mesh.

I integrated MSRS with RoboRealm and used the Navigation(AVM) module of RoboRealm . This module uses Associative Video Memory logic to recognize a image . The steps for integration of RoboRealm with MSRS R3 is available in the RoboRealm site. The object recognition is perfect and it also provides object tracking so that i can make my robot follow the object . In this video i trained the Navigation module using a picture and the i made the robot follow the picture. All these days i have been trying to do a sample with image recognition but all my attends were not very fruitful, now i feel we can do lots of wonderful object recognition with AVM module . RoboRealm looks very promising for object recognition . I would like to recommend this module for any one who wants to do navigation using object recognition

I have created a simple retail store in MSRS. This could have been created using any 3D tools like blender which gives a good visual treat. My simulation may not be of good quality but the idea is to demonstrate the use of RFID and other sensors to navigate accurately inside a retail store . The development of instore navigation becomes easy with Microsoft Simulation Environment. I have made use of RFID, Color ,Sonar and Compass sensors to make the robot travel in the northern directiion on the line. Further more i can improve the navigation using webcam image processing too. Currently the robot recognizes the line using three color sensor and it uses a compass to understand the direction to travel. It uses RFID to identify the aisle. The sonor sensor is used to identify a object and stop with out hitting the object. I would like you guys to give me some idea as to how we can use this protoyping knowledge and add value to the retailers.

Traxster from Robotics connection with serializer using Microsoft Robotics Studio. The Xbox controller's receiver is connected to the computer by USB and the computer communicates with the robot using a bluetooth connection.