SATE 2012 Project: Humanoid Robotics with NAO Pickup Application for NAO
My life hasn't gotten any less busy since leaving this project. This documentation is incomplete and lacking some of the leave behind materials I made for TecEdge. I will try to update them in time.
This is all of the code, test data, and documentation that came out of my 2012 summer internship with the Air Force Research Lab and TecEdge's Summer-at-the-Edge program. The research project's goal was to develop applications of the NAO robot's functionality to a real world environment. I tried to build an application to have NAO search a room for an object and pick it up. More advanced applications may have involved collecting a set of objects, obscured objects, objects other than red balls, and (super-cool pipe-dream) a wagon that NAO would pull around and collect the objects in.
Many thanks to Dr. Robert Williams of the AFRL and Dr. Greg Lee of the CWRU EECS department for their expertise, encouragement, ingenuity, and, of course, hardware.