[Dprglist] Fwd: [New post] Simulation Success!

[markus]

Hey Carl,

congrats on the completion of the first step, that is awesome! Sounds like you made a lot of progress in the past 6 months.

Have fun,
Markus

PS: Video - or it didn't happen ;)


On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:41:04 -0600
Doug Paradis <paradug at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robie_robot posted: "In 2011,  gathering inspiration from Carnegie
> Mellon's yearly outdoor sidewalk line following contest for freshman
> engineers, DPRG decided to create a challenging line following course
> for indoor use.  The result was a course that included both black on "
> 
> New post on *dprg.org <http://dprg.org>*
> <https://www.dprg.org/?author=1> Simulation Success!
> <https://www.dprg.org/simulation-success/> by Robie_robot
> <https://www.dprg.org/?author=1>
> 
> In 2011,  gathering inspiration from Carnegie Mellon's yearly outdoor
> sidewalk line following contest for freshman engineers,  DPRG decided
> to create a challenging line following course for indoor use.  The
> result was a course that included both black on white and white on
> black elements, segmented S curves, three different line widths,
> intersections, 90 degree and oblique curves, lines through color
> puddles of different contrasts, gaps, and more.  The course even had
> one gate similar to those used in the Carnegie Mellon competition.
> The course layout was introduced at the Roborama 2011b competition
> (see course layout
> <https://www.dprg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DPRG-Roborama-2011b-Challenge-Level-LF-Course.pdf>
> ).
> 
> Several members have attempted to complete the course since its
> introduction, without successful. One of the attempts was witnessed
> by Carl Ott. Carl became a DPRG member and set out to solve the
> course by creating a RoboRealm <http://roborealm.com> and Node.js
> <https://nodejs.org/en/> based vision system.
> 
> At the Robot Builders Night Out held at the Dallas Maker Space on
> November 7th, Carl *successfully ran to completion* a RoboRealm
> vision system simulation of the DPRG Challenge line following course
> cheered on by attending members.  Carl plans to mount the vision
> system on a DPRG club robot base and complete the physical course at
> an upcoming DPRG event.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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