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Monday, January 17, 2005From: Christopher Leung Kwantlen University College
Subject: Final Showdown of the "Remote Control Robot" Project
You are invited to the final showdown of a "Remote Control Robot" Project from a team of B.Tech(IT) students. The final showdown will take place in the Conference Center, Surrey Campus, Room G1205 A-side from 9am to 10am on Wednesday Jan 19, 2005.
The "Remote Control Robot" project is a collaborative project with the Munich University of Applied Science and is part of the cooperation program within the Canada-EU Consortium on Computer Networks and Network Security Studies.
The project is similar to the NASA Mars Lander. The objective is to guide a mobile robot through unknown terrain from a landing site to a given target location. The robot operates on a remote world ("Mars"); there is no way to access it physically. Students design and implement control software that directs the robot. The control software runs locally (on "Earth").
During the showdown, our team’s computer will remotely control a robot in Munich via Internet to walk inside a 3 meter x 3 meter playfield finding its best path to a target. The Munich team will also do the same, controlling a robot in Kwantlen, during the showdown.
The project was started in September 2004 with nine B.Tech(IT) students from Kwantlen and about twenty students from Munich. During the past few months, students had been working enthusiastically in
• working out a common design of the robot to be used in both Kwantlen and Munich and constructing the robot using the Lego Robotic Invention Kit
• discussing and agreeing about common technical conditions and interfacing requirements
• designing and implementing software for sending and receiving control commands between computers connected via Internet
• designing and implementing software for evaluating sensor readings, working out the best action to be taken based on an artificial intelligent algorithm, and finally forwarding commands to the robot through the communication network.
On Wednesday Jan 19, students will start setting up the computers, web cam and networks early in the morning at 7am and the final showdown will commence at 9am. You are all invited to share the fun and the result of the hard work from both the Kwantlen students and the Munich students.
For further information, contact Chris Leung ( christopher.leung@kwantlen.ca )
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A Computer Morning.
It’s a holiday morning, so the kids are home from school and Kate and Clare have talked me into taking a Fun Day today (Clare even has a song for this)! Before the fun day starts, though, it’s 8:30 a.m., and everyone in the house is on a computer. Sheree, Kailee, and I are on laptops, while Brent is on the desktop playing - what else – Runescape.
Kailee is on an old laptop her Dad recently gave her that we’ve never really played with, but she has decided to write a children’s book so she pulled it out. She opened it up, sat down, and immediately asked, “How come my internet isn’t working?” I said, “Honey, you don’t have any internet.” She said, “Yes, I do.” I said, “No, you don’t.”
“Yes, I do.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Yes, I do.”
“Kailee, you really don’t have any internet on that laptop. But you can do other stuff on there.”
“No, I can’t.”
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