S.P.O.T: Smart Path-planning Object-avoidance Technology
Members: Brandon Sheffer (Project Lead), Steve Chaya, Dan Rubin, Rachna Jethwani, Vivek Parmar
Instructor: Dr. Werner Krandick      Advisor: Dr. Jay Modi
Last Update: 5/24/2006
FINAL PRESENTATION: Wednesday May 31st 2 PM (Lebow 240)
Objective:

Currently the SONY AIBO ER7-M3 comes with an Entertainment Player which allows a user to remotely control the AIBO and view a video feed. However, the Entertainment Player uses primitive commands to control the AIBO (i.e. Move forward, backwards, left and right). The goal of our project is to create a more "intelligent" interface for users to interact with the AIBOs. We will design this interface to allow for not just primitive movement commands, but also a sophisticated point and click movement system using image processing, path planning, and obstacle avoidence technology to move the AIBO to a user specified target. For universal yet secure access, this interface will be located on a web server that will allow the AIBO's owner to control the robot from anywhere with an internet connection.
Documents:

Proposal:  PDF  (v1.0)
Project Plan:  PDF  (v1.0)
Acceptance Test:  PDF  (v2.0)
Requirements Document:  HTML  PDF   (v1.0)
Term 1 Presentation:  PDF   (v1.0)
Design Document:  HTML  PDF   (v2.0)
Resources:
Sony's AIBO Product Page
URBI - Universal Real-time Behavior Interface
Cyberbotics Webots simulator