Centrobot Joint Lectures

Joint Lecture No. 1

Date: 11. 2. 2010
Topic: Linefollowing robot
Place: HTL Spengergasse, Wien, AT

Important Links for your Centrobot LEGO NXT JAVA Linefollower course

Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)

• Basic overview on Wikipedia in English, Slovak and German.
• Companies
  • Egemin (The Netherlands)
    • Navigation methods
  • AGV Electronics (Sweden)
    • AGV School - tutorial and technical information
  • Yazaki Creform (Japan)
    • Automated Gudied Cart
  • Hi-Tech Robotic Systemz Ltd. (India)
    • Intellicarts
  • Corecon, Inc. (USA)
  • Simtech AGV Systems (New Zealand)
  • Jervis B. Webb Company (USA)
  • Savant Automation Inc. (USA)
    • History
    • Basic information
  • Daifuku (Malaysia)
  • ZTS VVÚ(Košice, Slovakia)

Articles

• Bob Trebilcock: Automatic guided vehicle (AGV) basics. Modern Materials Handling, November 1, 2007.
• Lorie King Rogers: Equipment Report: Automatic guided vehicles evolve. Modern Materials Handling, 11/1/2009.

Videos

• http://www.egeminusa.com/pages/AGV_movies_videos.html
• http://www.ocme.it/website/product_flv.aspx?id=470
• http://www.ztsvvuke.sk/ztsvvu/image.php?iid=111

LEGO

Building: First Steps (5min Robot)

Use the LEGO default Vehicle, construct your own, or use the following simple steps to build one:

1. 5 minutes Robot (http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/five_minute_bot/index.html)
2. add a light sensor (http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/line_follower/steps.html)

First Steps: LEGO default Robot

http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/4500569.pdf

Mechanical construction

• Basic NXT vehicle from the NXT EDU 9797 kit
• One more 9797 wehicle
• Tribot - Basic NXT vehicle from the NXT 1.0 8527 kit
• Tribot 2 (from http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8527-1)
• Shooterbot - Basic NXT vehicle from the NXT 2.0 8547 kit
• http://www.nxtprograms.com
  • Linefollower part I.
  • Linefollower part II.
  • Linefollower NXT-G software
• NXT Constructopedia

Programming ( LEJOS )

• LeJOS Homepage (http://lejos.sourceforge.net)
• LeJOS API Documentation (http://lejos.sourceforge.net/p_technologies/nxt/nxj/api/index.html)
• LeJOS Tutorial (http://lejos.sourceforge.net/nxt/nxj/tutorial/index.htm)
  • Tutorial
• Media:Lejos-sample-programs.zip (Sample Programs)

NXT-G

• Multimedia NXT-G Tutorial
• NXT-G tutorial presentation slides
• Special NXT-G Line Following block
• Linefollower NXT-G software