RobAIR2013-RICM4-Groupe1-Suivi

the Team

This team is composed of four 4th year Polytech Grenoble students, in System & Networks specialty.

The members of this team are Nicolas Afonso, Alexandre Corso, Laurène Guelorget and Simon Planès.

Project objectives

Our projet is a part of the RobAIR2013 project.

The shared project

RobAIR is a shared projet with two others schools:

• ENSIMAG
• Superior Pole Design of Villefontaine

The project consists of the development of a telepresence robot used for museum tours. It is a low cost robot (well below the maket price). The platform and software used for this robot are extensible and open-source.

Our sub project objectives

We are responsible for two main objectives:

• Roaming between the robot and the landscape
• ROS

Technologies used

• ROS
• Python

Material

• 1 Lego Mindstorm NXT Robot
• 2 Intel ExoPC Slate
• 1 USB Sound card
• 1 XBox Kinect
• 1 Lidar
• 2 DIY stereoscopic cameras

Progress of the project

The project started January 14th, 2013.

WEEK 1: from January 14th to January 20th

• We discovered the project and the different objectives.
• Installation of ROS and first steps with tutorials.

WEEK 2: from January 21st to January 27th

• We organized a meeting with the 3I4 and RICM4 students. During this meeting, we talked about what everyone understood of this project and what everyone objectives are.
• We met with the three students from Pole Design de Villefontaine and they told us what they have been working on for the last month.
• Meeting with Rémi Barraquand at INRIA to talk about ROS.

WEEK 3: from January 28th to February 3rd

• Writing of the SRS (first draft)
• Talk with Thomas Calmant and Joao Claudio Américo who worked on RobAIR before with Didier Donsez

WEEK 4: from January 4th to February 10th

• Meeting with the RICM5 working on this project

Appendices

Specification

• SRS.
• UML.

sources

• The RobAIR 2012 project. [1]

• An exemple of JAVA node to communicate with ROS: [2]