We spent the morning in an orientation to the RET program, where we were also assigned our teams and projects and got lots of great info about the UNT Engineering Department. After a tour of Discovery Park, we met in the robot lab with the EE students that will be assisting with the robotics project, Li and Phillip. They gave us a demo on how the robots work, and discussed possibilities for research and a lesson plan. Because of the nature of the robots, outdoor activities were ruled out.
We came up with the following goals:
- Make one of the two cameras work, either via a live feed or recording still images.
- Program robots to avoid obstacles in a landscape.
- Have the robots drive around while avoiding obstacles and recording video/images simultaneously.
- If time allows, use a program that can run pictures through image detection software to look for images with a certain marker in them. These markers could be placed on an object that needed to be located and/or retrieved, such as a rocket that had been launched.
Possible applications for students:
In UNT lab, set up a landscape with a few large rocks and model trees. The robot can drive around doing a “search & rescue” for a small-scale rocket, cataloguing pics and location data as it drives. Another possibility would be to send a live feed back to a monitoring station so that you could see what the robot is seeing. In the future, this could be scaled up to be used at the SystemsGo large scale rocket launches.
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