Introduction, and the Robots.

This Blog will document and project devoted to the evolving annual network controller for Pioneer P3DX robot bases produced by mobile robots.


The robot bases and come up to about the mid thigh, and they have a flat top to place additional equipment on. A computer to will be placed on here to control the robot will also be equipped with WebCams. Here you see one with something that looked more like coffee maker to speakers and WebCam on top.

The robots have two main wheels so they can turn on the spot making them very manoeuvrable. There are eight sonar senses at the front so that it can 'see' what's in front of it. These and a WebCam will be the inputs that the robot has to use to learn to get around and find objects.

The robot bases are designed to be programmed in C++, but there also are both Java and Phython wrappers to interact with the drivers. It make sense at this stage program in C++. There is also some useful software for running simulations, which will be useful in selecting the most of the individuals from each generation.