Making Robots
Building your own Robot
So you’re interested in building your very own robot? Well look no further. Making a robot can be a lot easier than you may think… To make it easier to find the robot building guide […]
Articles by Roger Woodman
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The Future of Robotics
Looking back over history it can be seen that there are a number of key technological innovations, which form the basis of whole new areas of research and development. An early example is the steam […]
Advanced Robotics
Face Recognition
[This article is based on the MSc thesis ‘A Photometric Stereo Approach to Face Recognition‘ by Roger Woodman]During recent times traditional personal identification methods have come under much scrutiny. This has mainly been due to increase […]
Advanced Robotics
Fuzzy Systems with Evolutionary Optimisation
Introduction Inverted Pendulum (or Cart and Pole) Fuzzy logic systems have been seen by many to be an alternative method of control, to more classical approaches, such as PID controllers. The main advantage of fuzzy […]
Advanced Robotics
Adaptive Heuristic Critic
IntroductionThis page compares and contrasts a number of Adaptive Heuristic Critic (AHC) algorithms, designed to explore a simulated 2D grid for a goal value. Learning is achieved with the use of a Temporal Difference (TD).The […]
Advanced Robotics
Multitasking Real-Time Operating Systems
Multitasking and real-time, in the field of operating systems, are antonymous. Normally all general-purpose operating systems, such as Windows and Mac OS, are multitasking and non real-time. Whereas in the embedded system market operating systems […]