Finally I have finished my exams, tomorrow I will stay three days in Telefónica I+D Barcelona to go work in a part of an European project, the Urus project. I can not comment the details, but I will tell you all the details that appear on the official web page of the project. The part of this project that I develop is the mobile communications with the server that coordinates the robots.
This project is based on a series of robots, which features guiding, transport and taxi. For example if you are in a great exhibition centre and you dont know how to reach the exhibition area of “60’s classic cars”, it would be possible to request a robot from your mobile to provide you one of the above functions.
The general objective of this project is the development of new ways of cooperation between network robots and human beings and/or the environment in urban areas, in order to achieve tasks that in the other way can be very complex, time consuming or too costly.
For example, the cooperation between robots and video cameras can solve surveillance problems in urban areas, or the cooperation between robots and wireless communication devices can help people in several ways. The focus of the project is in urban pedestrian areas, an important topic in Europe where there exists a growing interest in reducing the number of cars in the streets and improving the quality of life.
Network robots can be an important instrument to improve these issues in the cities. Network robots is a new concept that integrates robots, sensors, communications and mobile devices in a cooperative way.
The following video explains perfectly the mission of the Mars Science Laboratory in its arrival at Mars, it’s a “must see”, it lasts 7 minutes, but at each instant shows the high technology involved in the project.
I leave you with the video, which shows the spectacular precision that has its landing on Mars.
In the video there is a system that seemed science fiction, ChemCam. It is a system of laser-induced spectroscopy, which can point to a rock at a distance of up to 13 meters, vaporizing a small amount of minerals and collecting the spectrum of emitted light by the vaporized rock to instantly detect the composition. The mission is to discover if the life on Mars was possible.
Finally I decided to pack the remaining projects in a video to finalize the PC-PIC posts. There is another project with the PIC that moves the mouse with the potentiometers and made left click and right click with the buttons connected to the PIC, but I haven’t included it in the video because I haven’t had time.
The project uses two potentiometers as analog inputs, which are translated to digital signals by the PIC and the data is sent to the computer with the serial output. In the computer a specific software programmed in Python translates the data to movements and sounds, depending on the project.
Hello again, I’ve been almost a week without posting because I have been doing some small projects for the PIC 18F4520 this weekend. Until a few days ago did not have much idea about these PICS, but they are fantastic, especially if you mix with assembler programming with Python on PC side. The videos will be released one by one, so I have time and material to write new posts. ;)
I leave with you with the first, which basically process METAR data from nearest airport, for example, the Bilbao airport now returns me this string:
Once processed you will get: 032130Z Date and time of METAR – Day 3 (June) at 21:30 (Zulu = GMT) +2 hours (is summer time), so 23:30 (10 minutes ago) VRB02KT Wind variable at 2 knots 9999 Vsibility over 10km FEW025 A few clouds at 2500 feet 17/15 Temperature of 17 º and 15 º C dew point Q1017 1017 millibars NOSIG No changes are expected
We apply a pair of operations to transformknot to Km/h and to find the humidity:
Humidity = Dew point / temperature * 100 (in this case 88.2%)
