Talk:1108

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Impressive list of projects! How are you planning on doing VOX? I think it would be pretty cool if you did something like StangPS or an inertial nav system and then you could say things like:

"Set origin!" (Sets the current position as 0,0 and zero's the heading)

"Go to 10,15" (Goes to position 10,15 realative to last origin setting)

"Return" (Goes to last way point)

"Record" (Tells robot to wait for list of waypoints)

"Mark One"

"10,10"

"10,15"

"10,17"

"10,10"

"Goto 1"

Ah yes, that would such a cool and pointless hack :-)

--Phrontist 23:14, 5 Jun 2004 (EDT)

I was wondering the same thing, also how do you plan to compensate for the noise in the arena and around the field. --Cyberwolf 22 00:10, 6 Jun 2004 (EDT)

As of now it is only a slight idea. Lots of problems to solve in this one but just fun to look at. As for now I'm just working on a simple hack using a voice recognition software and Rob Bayer program and playing with the EDUbot running pbasic. Maybe hack it and use it for different things like fundraisers and an Open House booth I do at K-State. The more complicated idea is probably not possible by the next season but I've been looking at using CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) Sphinx, an open source (free) voice recognition project at SourceForge, and build a Java program to use the recognition and send out values based mostly as a joystick value. The setup would include a noise cancellation headset microphone and complete manual control options. The voice recognition could be model and trained to the specific driver and this would help a lot along with the noise cancellation microphone. A very rough wired version of the vox controlled edubot will happen in the next couple weeks after I get the edubot. I smoother wireless version will hopefully happen before the end of summer. And the competition bot probably is not competitive until at least 2006. I like the waypoints idea. I could see instead of giving the robot direct directions to get to each waypoint you could build autonomy into it so that it can find its own way. Then we would have some real robots. But enough for now. --Ngreen 01:23, 15 Jun 2004 (EDT)