We recently finished our proof-of-concepts experiments with on-line evolution. In on-line evolution a human trainer drives the robot and while the robot is being driven it is learning (via an evolutionary algorithm) to imitate the human’s control behaviors. After a … Continue reading
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Code for on-board, evolved path following
The code for the paper on on-board, evolved path following is now available via bit-bucket at bitbucket.org/uidaholair/learning-from-demonstration-for-encapsulated-evolution-of. It runs on two android phones. One phone acts as the robot’s “brains”, including performing all of the image processing and running the … Continue reading
Semi-autonomous, tele-operation
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Thanks to Dallas’ hard work we can now have (small) armies of semi-autonomous, tele-operated bots. The bots do color following and stream their video to a webpage. The operator drives the bot at the front of the line via a virtual joystick (see image) and … Continue reading
Video Page
We now have a video page (look under pages on the right) with a few sample videos showing cool demos with 1 or more COTSBots. Look for more videos as the summer progresses.
Quick Build
Added some basic instructions for a quick robot build using the Rover 5 tank kit from DFRobot.
US Science and Engineering Festival
Just got back from the US Science and Engineering Festival (www.usasciencefestival.org) as part of the BEACON (www.beacon-center.org) contingent. We were demonstrating evolution in action including evolutionary games and the COTSBots, which can evolve their own code on-line in real-time. For … Continue reading
COTS Bots Project at the University of Idaho
We, students and faculty at the University of Idaho, are designing and building robots according to the COTS principle – e.g. using Commercial Off-The-Shelf products. Critical design requirements are that the robot be: Affordable (<$500) Easy and quick to assemble (e.g. … Continue reading
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