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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi! If your reading this then you should probably keep your mind open and just roll with what i am telling you. My team attends North East Magnet High School in Wichita KS. I have an interest in Control systems and electronics engineering. My teammate Austin Slater has always been adept at mechanical engineering and physical design. What we intend to do and in fact what we have already had some success with is designing, building, programming, and TEACHING. a humanoid robot. We are using neural network concepts to encode a Long-Short term memory neural network. This allows the robot to have thought and even memories in the form of "Physical" Connections between the "Neurons" and the signals being bounced around the "Brain". The bot has treads for mobility and is humanoid from the waist up. The bot has already learned to avoid sharp drops or "Cliffs" such as a table's edge. It has learned to make a punching motion and lean back to avoid being hit. (HINT. we built two bots to simulate a fight with each other). We still have farther to go but we are on a steady way. any help, advice, things you would like to see, or just cool comments, post them here. thank you

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    Former Member over 13 years ago +1
    The device that won the competition was A neuro vending machine. you put your head against the panel and based on what your brain was craving, the vending machine would dish out the perfect thing for you…
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    DAB over 13 years ago

    Hi Andrew,

     

    You definately have an ambitious project.

    I would recommend that you take a look at the Adaptive Algorithm approach used by Dr. Peter Raeth.  He and I looked at a lot of control and data analysis implementations.  I think they might help you get more control over the moving parts for repetitive actions.  The algorithm lets the system adapt to other influences as well as the control signals to compensate for vibration, hysterysis and other external sources of variance.

     

    I hope you keep us appraised of your progress, it should be very informative.

     

    Thanks

    DAB

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    Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to DAB

    to DAB. thank you very much for pointing me towards that concept. I found that many of the things inside my design accomplished most of the main points of the Adaptive algorythm approach in a round about way. however, the use of such methods are with purpose. i sacrifice the cut-slimness of my code in order to give it a huge adaptive and "Creative" awarness. an example of this concept happened just today. our bot is allowed to watch students in between class periods while they are in the halls in order to gain as much data for use as possible. we now know that our bot has something resembling a "Shadow Function". we asked him to walk to the other end of the room, he proceded to walk half the distance then began to SKIP! he was hopping from one foot to the other while staying in a reasonably strait line. We took five minutes to even get over the shock of what we had seen. he is developing options to every action on his own. I am proud to say that he is a good student. I can honestly say that i may no longer be an active developer but merely an observer to what he comes up with.

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    dirtdiver over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Verry interesting! Do you have any videos or pictures you can show? And are you using an arduino for this project?

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    dirtdiver over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Verry interesting! Do you have any videos or pictures you can show? And are you using an arduino for this project?

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