robotics

Hafiq’s DRL-based robot is doing well in crowd navigation

Hafiq’s Deep Reinforcement Learning-based robot is doing well in crowd navigation. The DRL model was trained in one crowd setting and tested in different unseen crowd settings. In simulation, we have tested with up to 12 moving obstacles at a speed close to the robot. In real-world, we have tested with 4 obstacles at a …

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Our NAO is back alive

The battery pack of the NAO robot has “intelligent” charging circuit that prevents the battery from charging when the battery’s voltage falls below a set value. This would deem the battery useless and call for replacement. Our NAO was idle for about two years when restriction on physical activities was in place due to the …

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Teleop and digital twin of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm

The School of Digital Science has acquired a Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm. This added opportunities for us to experiment with manipulation tasks in robotic. The video below is our first project with the NED. This is a lab project by three third year students in the Bachelor of Digital Science: Firdaus, Luqman and Farah. …

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Robotic workshop at GDG Brunei DevFest 2022

Syamimi and Haifq with a few members of Robolab will be conducting a robotic workshop at the DevFest Brunei 2022 organized by Google Developers Group (GDG) Brunei and Women Techmakers Brunei. Exploring Robot Programming with Python 👩🏽‍💻 Suitable for: Beginners and Intermediates in Robotics ⏰ Time & Room allocation: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm at …

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Upgraded the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm

We are working on the Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm that the School of Digital Science has recently acquired. The RPi firmware that came with the NED is an older version and is not compatible with the latest version of Niryo Studio, 4.1.0. So, we upgraded the firmware to 4.1.0. Ref: https://niryo.com/docs/niryo-one/update-your-robot/update-raspberry-pi-image/ Download: https://niryo.com/download/

Hafiq presented his paper at RiTA 2021

Hafiq presented his initial work in his MSc at the 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021). The conference is a hybrid one with on-site and virtual participation. We attended the conference virtually. Hafiq’s paper is “Comparison of Deep Q-Learning, Q-Learning and SARSA Reinforced Learning for Robot Local Navigation”. Abstract. This …

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SLAM has been implemented on the Wanderer-v1

Amirul has implemented the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) on our Wanderer-v1 robot. The implementation was done from scratch involving writing Python scripts for the kinematics, motion and sensor models, particle filter for localization and A-star search for path planning. Details of the project is available here.