I’m thinking about making a graffiti robot that would wander around and spray water on the ground to make images.
As part of this it will need to know where it is.
Let’s say it’s working in a 10m square, outside. Here are my ideas for knowing where the robot is.
Sort of differential gps. I have a fixed gps station and a second gps mounted on the robot. The difference in the two position gives an idea where the robot s relative to the ground station… This should correct for gps ‘drift’
A remote camera, openCV, a yellow ball on top of the robot. I won’t be able to mount the camera directly overhead as were outside but I suppose I could do some maths to correct for parralax.
Beacons. IR, bluetooth? Two beacons, find the angle to each and triangulate?
Dead reckoning, but using an IMU to increase accuracy.
Another answer that I’ve missed.
I want this to be cheap, accurate and easy to put together. Timescale about a month.
If AAI (artificial artificial inteligence) will do I did an IOT Trike with web page remote control and google hangouts video monitoring. The project is documented here:
How about making a giant “mouse”? i.e. motor-driven rollers, sensors etc. For that kind of tolerance, how about a laser location system - you know, rotating laser directed at static mirrors on each corner of the canvas?
I think this talk of hacking a mouse is unnecessary - putting your food away and using sealed containers is a more humane solution…