SAN BOTS: Projects using Robos

The projects that I intend to post here are shown below.

1.Haptic Robotic Arm

Haptic technology refers to technology that interfaces the user with a virtual environment via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user. This mechanical stimulation may be used to assist in the creation of virtual objects (objects existing only in a computer simulation), for control of such virtual objects, and to enhance the remote control of machines and devices (teleoperators). This emerging technology promises to have wide reaching applications as it already has in some fields. For example, haptic technology has made it possible to investigate in detail how the human sense of touch works by allowing the creation of carefully controlled haptic virtual objects. These objects are used to systematically probe human haptic capabilities, which would otherwise be difficult to achieve. These new research tools contribute to our understanding of how touch and its underlying brain functions work. Although haptic devices are capable of measuring bulk or reactive forces that are applied by the user, it should not to be confused with touch or tactile sensors that measure the pressure or force exerted by the user to the interface. The term haptic originated from the Greek word haptikos meaning pertaining to the sense of touch and comes from the Greek verb haptesthai meaning to “contact” or “touch.

Some of the images of Haptic Robotic are shown below.

2.Accelero Botix

Accelero-Botix is a new approach to the Human Machine Interface. It is based on the implementation of acceleration sensor on robotics, graphics and embedded application development. This technology is now widely used in virtual reality, mobile phones, gaming solutions, animated movies et

3. iTouch Robotic Arm and MobiTronix.

The i-Touch Robotic Arm and MobiTronix aims at taking the robotics enthusiast to another level of controlling their robots.

4..Swarm Robots

Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multi robot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behaviour emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment. This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behaviour occurs.

Both miniaturization and cost are key-factors in swarm robotics. These are the constraints in building large groups of robotics; therefore the simplicity of the individual team member should be emphasized. This should motivate a swarm-intelligent approach to achieve meaningful behavior at swarm-level, instead of the individual level.Potential applications for swarm robotics include tasks that demand for miniaturization (nanorobotics, microbotics), like distributed sensing tasks in micromachinery or the human body. On the other hand swarm robotics can be suited to tasks that demand cheap designs, for instance mining tasks or agricultural foraging tasks. Also some artists use swarm robotic techniques to realize new forms of interactive art.