We have upgraded our Turtlebot2 to ROS Noetic on Ubuntu 20.04. The Turtlebot2 was previously running on ROS Kinetic. . In the video above, the Turtlebot2 was mapping out the office floor of the School of Digital Science, UBD. It was controlled wirelessly with a PS3 controller. The video has been speeded up x2. Turtlebot2 …
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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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 …
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. …
Teleop and digital twin of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm Read More »
The turnout was good considering that there were parallel sessions at the same time. Syamimi, Hafiq and Beng handled the event. . The workshop was hosted in iCenter as one of the many programs in DevFest Brunei 2022 organized by GDG Brunei and WTM Brunei. The event was a one day event on Sunday, 4 …
Syamimi and Hafiq’s robot programming workshop went well Read More »
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 …
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 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 …
The Covid pandemic second wave hit the country at the beginning of this semester. I was stuck in how to get going with the SS-4311 Robot Programming module where the students are supposed to have fun with the physical robot. Fortunately, there are just the sufficient number of robots for all the students. They have …
Final Robot Programming presentation for this semester Read More »
This time we are using the Alphabot2-Pi from Waveshare. It would be good to have fitted with an ultrasonic sensor, IMU and wheel encoders.