Tag: robot | AI Lab

July 23, 2023 / AI Lab / Lab

Upgraded our Turtlebot2 to ROS Noetic

We have upgraded our Turtlebot2 to ROS Noetic on Ubuntu 20.04. The Turtlebot2 was previously running on ROS Kinetic. [read more]

June 30, 2023 / AI Lab / Lab

Fixed the bumper of our Turtlebot2

The bumper of one of our Turtlebot2 was jammed. The center and left side were jam and could not push in. It turned out that the fixture for center bumper mechanism came out of its holder. It was probably pushed up too much. It is [read more]

March 05, 2023 / AI Lab / Research

Hafiq's DRL-based robot is doing well in crowd navigation

Hafiq’s Deep Reinforcement Learning-based robot is doing well in crowd navigation. The DRL model was trained in one crowd setting and tested in different unseen crowd settings. In simulation, we have tested with up to 12 moving obstacles at a speed close to the robot. [read more]

December 17, 2022 / AI Lab / Lab

Our NAO is back alive

The battery pack of the NAO robot has “intelligent” charging circuit that prevents the battery from charging when the battery’s voltage falls below a set value. This would deem the battery useless and call for replacement. Our NAO was idle for about two years when [read more]

December 12, 2022 / AI Lab / Lab

Teleop and digital twin of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm

The School of Digital Science has acquired a Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm. This added opportunities for us to experiment with manipulation tasks in robotic. The video below is our first project with the NED. This is a lab project by three third year students [read more]

August 27, 2022 / AI Lab / Lab

Upgraded the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm

We are working on the Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm that the School of Digital Science has recently acquired. The RPi firmware that came with the NED is an older version and is not compatible with the latest version of Niryo Studio, 4.1.0. So, we [read more]

November 30, 2021 / AI Lab / Teaching

Final Robot Programming presentation for this semester

The Covid pandemic second wave hit the country at the beginning of this semester. I was stuck in how to get going with the SS-4311 Robot Programming module where the students are supposed to have fun with the physical robot. Fortunately, there are just the [read more]

November 11, 2020 / AI Lab / Lab

Another TurtleBot 2 added to Robolab

New robot member in Robolab V3. [read more]

August 06, 2020 / AI Lab / Teaching

New session of Robot Programming has started

This time we are using the Alphabot2-Pi from Waveshare. It would be good to have fitted with an ultrasonic sensor, IMU and wheel encoders. [read more]