Event Website
http://studentweb.kennesaw.edu/~jhuynh9/index.html
Document Type
Event
Start Date
1-12-2022 5:00 PM
Description
The field of robotics is an expanding landscape, pushing the frontiers of engineering, machine vision, artificial intelligence and more. The robotics industry also has a foothold in many areas, such as consumer markets, scientific research, industrial and medical applications, and even exploration. With the growing interest in automated machines, individuals who can work with these machines are in demand, and providing a way to learn the skills to do so would be just as valuable. Kennesaw State University is currently in possession of two UXA-90 Humanoid robots; both of which have remained in storage for extended periods of time since their purchase in the mid 2010’s. They have been intermittently worked on, but prior groups were unable to make the robots functional. Our project is to assess the robots, attempt to bring them back online, and then to explore their functionality in the hopes that current and future students would be able to utilize these robots in different projects. We utilized the manuals that accompanied the robots, as well as the software documentation for the Robot Operating System (ROS) in order to access the robot’s internal computer and diagnose the problems with the preloaded programs. By fixing the problems in the preloaded programs, we are now able to expand on the functionality of the robot with things such as voice control and face recognition.
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UC-272 Defunct to Funct: Expanding the Functionality of Forgotten Robots
The field of robotics is an expanding landscape, pushing the frontiers of engineering, machine vision, artificial intelligence and more. The robotics industry also has a foothold in many areas, such as consumer markets, scientific research, industrial and medical applications, and even exploration. With the growing interest in automated machines, individuals who can work with these machines are in demand, and providing a way to learn the skills to do so would be just as valuable. Kennesaw State University is currently in possession of two UXA-90 Humanoid robots; both of which have remained in storage for extended periods of time since their purchase in the mid 2010’s. They have been intermittently worked on, but prior groups were unable to make the robots functional. Our project is to assess the robots, attempt to bring them back online, and then to explore their functionality in the hopes that current and future students would be able to utilize these robots in different projects. We utilized the manuals that accompanied the robots, as well as the software documentation for the Robot Operating System (ROS) in order to access the robot’s internal computer and diagnose the problems with the preloaded programs. By fixing the problems in the preloaded programs, we are now able to expand on the functionality of the robot with things such as voice control and face recognition.
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cday/Fall_2022/Undergraduate_Capstone/16