Tag: robotics
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AI and robotics exhibition at STA HB
The Sekolah Tinggi Arab Hassanal Bolkiah (STA HB) invited the School of Digital Science, UBD to provide robotics exhibition on their Science Day on 12 July. Members from Robolab showcased their AI and robotics projects, as well as conducted a mini RoboRace competition. [read more]
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ROBOTIS mentioned Hafiq's work
Thank you for the mention. [read more]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Syamimi and Hafiq's robot programming workshop went well
The turnout was good considering that there were parallel sessions at the same time. Syamimi, Hafiq and Beng handled the event. [read more]
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Robotic workshop at GDG Brunei DevFest 2022
Syamimi and Haifq with a few members of Robolab will be conducting a robotic workshop at the DevFest Brunei 2022 organized by Google Developers Group (GDG) Brunei and Women Techmakers Brunei. [read more]
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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]
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Hafiq presented his paper at RiTA 2021
Hafiq presented his initial work in his MSc at the 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021). The conference is a hybrid one with on-site and virtual participation. We attended the conference virtually. [read more]
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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]
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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]
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SLAM has been implemented on the Wanderer-v1
Amirul has implemented the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) on our Wanderer-v1 robot. The implementation was done from scratch involving writing Python scripts for the kinematics, motion and sensor models, particle filter for localization and A-star search for path planning. [read more]
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Robot programming is going on
The messy wires of our customized mobile robots are troublesome. Time to get proper robotic kits. Nevertheless, the opportunity to directly fiddle with the electronic parts hopefully gives the students the extra knowledge and skills in electronic circuit. [read more]