So, basically this is how our thesis looks like and what it is --- to put it short, it's a robot made out of LEGO Mindstorms. What we did for our thesis was to create an adaptable and robust framework extensible to multi-robot systems.
In case you're asking what it does, we made it map out things it can detect as obstacles. I made a GUI written in Java which can control the robot in a nearby or remote computer . The robot detects things using this IR proximity sensor, just a cheap low-range sensor -- and we were really aiming for low-range for some reasons.
The robot communicates with the controller via a remote wireless connection. One feature we haven't really thought of, thanks to our brilliant adviser, he told us to try it out as a robot with night vision --- since it's an IR sensor it can work anywhere even without light, the controller can see its movement in a GUI anyway. There goes the XBee mounted at the back of the robot in the picture belowwww *looks down*
And, of course, it needs a link to the controller so we also built some random stuff out of LEGO and made it stand at the tip of the laptop screen.
Here's how it maps out things, like a book. (and the GUI I have been doing for more than a week or two in Java) I srsly think taking Java for an elective this school year came in handy for our thesis. HAHA.
Last, but not the least, we also tried it out using fingers --- it has a small surface area and we were just wondering if the sensor could still detect it from a distance.
THESIS IT.
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