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| Robot: | Robodyssey ESRA Pheromone Project |
| Features: | Robodyssey ESRA, Basic Check out The Servo Magazine article |
| Developers: | Students at a local high school |
The Challenge: Adding Sexes to Robots?!
To transform 4 ESRA robots into individual beings able to be identified as a young male, old male, young female or old female by an outside observer. No visible modifications could be done to the robots that might hint as to which one is male or female, young or old.The Solution: They Aren't that Easy!
This exciting challenge was given to a group of high school students as a way to secretly lure them into learning a variety of practical skills. First, the students had to agree on how a robot would behave in proximity to another robot. In other words, how a young male responds to a young female vs. an old female. Secondly, the students had to learn how to manipulate the ESRA's servos to emulate human expressions. Thirdly, the students had to develop a software based communication system to allow robots to identify themselves to the other robots by simply being in the same area. Something we call digital pheromones. Lastly, the students had to tie this all together in code for every combination of associations for each of the 4 robots.Read the whole article from Servo Magazine
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A group of Robodyssey ESRA Robots hooked to laptops for programming. |
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One of many programming sessions developing reactions for one of the one groups - (Old Male, Young Male, Old Female, or Young Female) |
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Working on a stand-alone pheromone transmitter |
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The team continued to work on developing a stand alone digital pheromone but eventually used a Basicx code based digital signature for each robot. |
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