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Rovio Room Positioning Data

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1 year ago
by John in ,

The built in Northstar system for the Rovio allows us to track the current position of the robot in real time using IR room beacons.  When I started the Automated Mapping System for my Home AI I ran into a few issues, mainly that as the Rovio gets further from a beacon the positional data became less reliable.  I realize this is to be expected but it makes mapping the robot dataset to a real-world view of the home a bit difficult.  That is when I realized I don’t need the robot to see the More >

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Rovio Automated Room Mapping

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1 year ago
by John in ,

Using my C# Rovio library I wrote an autonomous room mapping application that randomly sends one of my Rovio’s around the room plotting data as it goes.  The application uses the Rovio’s Northstar data to fetch the current x/y/theta of the robot and it then plots any obstruction at that location.  (I also went ahead and start plotting both the wifi and Northstar signal strengths on separate images that I can use as overlays.)

I currently sample the Rovio status every 100ms, and process movement commands once every 5 seconds.  This gives me a sample size of 50 points per More >

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