[Dprglist] garden roomba

[Jeff Koenig]

I like these garden robots, and I'd consider creating a small plot just to
have a space for them to maintain.  It would be fun to train a security
camera on them to monitor their progression.

>From the folded receipt bookmark, I see that I bought the first-edition
"Mobile Robots - Inspiration to Implementation" in 1995, and paid $39.95.
It was well worth it.  I wrote subsumption code for a Handyboard that did
all of the steps for the Can Can contest, but never got them all running
together properly.  It was a lot of fun watching a subsumption robot
successfully wander around the house for hours, though, interacting with
the dog and people, hiding, etc.

Jon Connell was at MIT with Jones and Flynn about this time, and somewhere
I found contact information for him.  After a brief correspondence, I
talked him into selling me a couple of PCBs he created for an analog
subsumption robot he'd written up for OMNI magazine.  That completed robot
now sits on a shelf, mostly as a trophy.

I don't recall the fellow at the DPRG with plans for an agricultural robot,
but I remember it being discussed.  Hopefully someone else has a more
complete recollection.

-Jeff



On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:37 PM, David Anderson <davida at smu.edu> wrote:

> Cool.
>
> I think there was a DPRG guy back in the Science Place days who was
> working on an agricultural robot.  He had a very accurate GPS system and
> made some benchmarks for us.   Anyone remember who that was?
>
> dpa
>
>
>
> On 06/14/2017 02:28 PM, Doug Paradis wrote:
>
> David,
>     It will be interesting how the garden weeder robot pans out. The $250
> cost point would make it affordable enough for a home owner. I am not so
> interested in gardening, however I would be interested in a unit that kept
> my shrubbery beds clean of weeds and secondary scrub suckers. It would have
> to ride over mulch and eliminate non-scrub/flowers targets. Keeping
> landscape beds clean is a major nuisance.
>
>     I have both of those books on my shelves. I found them when I used to
> search Half Price books for interesting books. Amazon has them available at
> reasonable cost.  Both are very good reads and excellent references. The
> Joesph Jones book shows up in a lot of college lectures, but is also
> suitable for the hobbyist roboticist. It is my favorite of the two.
>
> Here is a link to an MIT lecture about the same topic.
> <http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.189/fall2005/pub/lectures/Releases/2005_09_08_lecture2.pdf>
> http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.189/fall2005/pub/lectures/
> Releases/2005_09_08_lecture2.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Doug P.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:20 AM, David Anderson <davida at smu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey, DPRG!   Anybody out there?
>>
>> Joe Jones is starting a kick-starter campaign for a roomba-style robot to
>> weed your garden:
>>
>> <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/>
>> <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/>
>>
>> You may remember Joesph Jones as the author of "Behavior Based Robotics",
>> which at one time we had in the DPRG library, back when we had a library:
>>
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Programming-Practical-Behavior
>> -Based-Robotics/dp/0071427783>
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Programming-Practical-Behavior-Based-Robotics/dp/0071427783>
>>
>> as well as, with Anita Flynn, the classic "Mobile Robots"
>>
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-Implementa
>> tion-Second/dp/1568810970>
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-Implementation-Second/dp/1568810970>
>>
>> which was my first introduction to subsumption.  I still have my original
>> edition, (although my memory is that he was very unhappy with the second
>> edition, which was published without his input or approval).
>>
>> cheers!
>> dpa
>>
>>
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