How does the Roomba robot find it's docking base?
407061
If you go to iRobot's site, they actually have quite a bit of info for hackers on it. Check the below link for 'How Roomba Works'
253145
At the Space Center, in the VAB (vehicle assembly building) the shuttle is hoisted by crane from horizontal to vertical then attached to the boosters. This crane is sensitive enough to place the shuttle so that it touches an egg without breaking the egg.
471945
Vacuuming, the electric motor turns the brush that sweeps the floor as it creates a vacuum to pick the dirt up. The filter takes the small particles out of the mix so they don't get out into the air in the room and into your lungs when you sweep. Port? That's where you dock a ship.
797878
Hi. Tramming a product part or machine surface is done using an indicator and consists of sweeping the indicator tip over a surface to assure it is aligned with the machine. Hope this helps.
496675
You should be able to.\n\nEach LAN connection is typically classified as an independant item.  You may need to manually turn the Wi-Fi on if the profile turns off the radio component when the unit is docked.\n\nBe careful if you have your docking station on a different network than the wireless.  If you activated the bridge in the O/S you can open up the network that the docking station is attached to.  This would be very critical in a secure environment.\n\nHope that helps
413733
hello.\nyou must see every where and think ,you must find a simple act that your robot can do.you can use every cite do you like.use your imagination.
661922
In classical robotic control methodology, the system attempts to recover as much of the state of the environment as possible, operates on the internal representation of the state using general planning and reasoning algorithms, and chooses a sequence of control actions to implement the selected plan. The sheer complexity of designing this kind of architecture has led researchers to investigate simpler architectures that make do with minimal internal state. BEHAVIOR-BASED ROBOTICS approaches the problem via an interacting set of elemental processes called “behaviors,” each of which is a simplified control law relating sensations and actions. REINFORCEMENT LEARNING has provided algorithms that utilize simplified evaluation signals to guide a search for improved laws; over time these algorithms approach the optimal plans that are derived (with more computational effort) from explicit planning algorithms.
311715
whats a master-slave nanipulator?\nRobotics is a very big field than contains many types on engineering. goto yahoo and type "robotics" \nMIKE
893748
That's a job for rEFIt:\n\nhttp://refit.sourceforge.net/\n\nYou'll find instructions on the docs section.
818764
If the objects have designated capture/handling points, the EE must be able to find them or be guided to them, and engage them.\nIf operating in a gravitational environment (such as on earth) consider picking objects up fork-lift style rather than by grasping; then the only forces will be gravitational (plus any acceleration applied by the EE).\nForce sensing and limiting (via feedback) may be needed; grasping, gravitational and acceleration forces should be taken into account.\nEE contact points/areas may need to be padded to distribute forces over a wide area, and/or the contacting limbs be made highly compliant.\nConsider a snare arrangement for initial capture.\nThe refs. contain some elements of gentle handling used on the Space Shuttle's robotic arm (RMS).\nIf allowed, the objects you intend to lift should be designed with capture points such as the "grapple fixture" on RMS-handled payloads.
556965
Look in the operaters manual
891400
* There are horizontal and vertical rows of electrodes below it that form a grid. These layers with electrodes are charged with a constant alternating current (AC). \n\n    * As the finger touches the electrode grid, the current is interrupted and the interruption is detected by the circuit board. \n\n    * It works by sensing the capacitance. The human finger is an electrical conductor, and when you place your finger on a TouchPad, a tiny capacitance forms between your finger and the metal electrodes in the TouchPad.\n\n    * The TouchPad sensor's sensitive analog electronics measure the amount of capacitance in each of the electrodes. By measuring which electrodes have the most capacitance, the TouchPad can locate your finger to an accuracy of better than 1/1000th of an inch.
631992
They use toilets that have suction, like a vaccuum does. The guys that go in space have to pee in a hose that has suction and that gets kind of wierd...a guy and a hose.....
136254
might this be in a diffrent base?
460378
The basic theory is that if you pump steam into a place where there is a piston, the piston will move up.  Then you release the steam and the piston will go down.  You connect the piston to something to get movement, such as some gears that turn the propellers or connect them to the wheels.  It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's basically how it's done.
25690
A docking station for laptops is something that usually sits somewhere like on your desk at home and you plug your laptop into it when you get home.  The interesting part is that there can already be lots of things, like a keyboard, mouse, external monitor, printer, and other peripherals attached to the station that you can now just use with your laptop.\nSo you kind of get back some of the benefits of having a desktop computer while still have a portable laptop.\n\n\nThere are also portable "docking stations" that let you plug in more things to your laptop like disc drives if your laptop doesn't have them built in.
647218
maybe they are hlf robot themselves lol