SpaceVacuum

SpaceVacuum
Participants	Giorg10
Skills	Electronics, Robotics, ROS
Status	Active
Niche	Yes
Purpose	Clean and tidy HAAHAHA space
Tool	No
Location	Around the space
Cost	Not a lot
Tool category	Electronics

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In the (false) hope that this will help keep the space cleaner, this project aims at performing a brain-transplant to one of the robot vacuum cleaners at the space to improve its ability to navigate and connect it to the space's IRC.

This page is just a stub and will get expanded soon.

Plan

• Reverse-engineer the robot's PCB
• Replace the MCU with a custom controller
• Set up a Pi with ROS + nav-stack
• Write a ROS driver to link to said custom controller
• Make an initial 2D map of the space
• Write a ROS driver to act as a bot in the space's IRC

This should be enough to get some basic behaviour.

Extensions

Lost more could be done.

• There are 3D cameras like the Kinect and D-Lite, these could be used to make/update a 3D map of the space.
• There is a horn, could be linked to a camera to horn at people that don't get out of the way.
• Add your silly idea to this list