Systronix JDroid - Info & Links

JDroid
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RealTime Java
robots invading
the real world

Summary of this page

Sensors
Micromachined
Quartz Angular
Rate Sensor Technical
paper describing the BEI GyroChip, consisting of a unique micromachined
double-ended quartz tuning fork and advanced electronics, uses
the Coriolis effect to sense yaw rates. It has been widely accepted
in automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial applications.
BEI GyroChip
Sensors technical
information technical
data on the sensor modules
PC
Flight Systems an aircraft gyro system using the BEI GyroChip
sensors and a WinCE PocketPC. About $1300, an unheard-of (low) price
for a solid state gyro system.

Legos
Legos
and digital photography Philippe Hurbain's site
with information on aerial photography, panoramas, and more

Robotic Snakes
GMD-Snake Fantastic snake robot
with pluggable segments, using a CAN network!
Snake
Robots Dr.
Gavin Miller's robotic snakes

Unicycle Robots
Stabilization
of a Unicycle-Type Mobile Robot Scholarly paper which develops two control
time-invariant laws for a unicycle-type mobile robot. I think
a holonomic robot is one which has 2 degrees of freedom in translation
and one in rotation (please correct
me). The PDF text is, unfortunately not stored in a searchable
form.

Architectures
Subsumption
architecture description The subsumption (or 'Brooksian')
architecture is predicated on the synergy between sensation and
actuation in lower animals such as insects. Brooks argues that
instead of building complex agents in simple worlds, we should
follow the evolutionary path and start building simple agents
in the real, complex and unpredictable world.

Robot Construction
How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head
- for $600 Includes links to Linux/Java code.
http://howtoandroid.com/
Also see the Mind architecture:
http://howtoandroid.com/Architecture.html
Evolution Robot Kit a notebook PC on wheels, about $600 not including the notebook. Use XBeams for the chassis.

Materials
XBeams Modular aluminum extrusions, being used in the evolution robot
Lynxmotion robot kits and components good quality laser cut plastic kits, also motors, wheels, sumo parts, lots more. Videos and construction manuals for most items.

JDroid Home Links Why?
JDroids are powered by
realtime, native-execution, Java Technology JRealTime JStamp JCX JStik SaJe JSimm

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