R2-M5 droid using ROS: Voice Recognition, Peope Tracking, SLAM

[rukrul]

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[lucas1lego]

bleufant

[viperarc]

Dude! Love your job. super amazing!!!!! 

[Nomoreidsleft]

Great work! Btw, did you buy the droid body or build it from scratch?

[therealbjoerngiesler]

@Nomoreidsleft Built the body, legs, feet from scratch. The dome and most of the details I bought from fellow members of the R2 Builders Club.

[lucafe006]

so cool man



[HoraceAndTheSpider]

when he starts recognising wall-sockets and recharging himself, then i'd be scared!

amazing work

[jkirchman79]

I noticed some of the commands your R2 follows or replies to are the same as the smaller Hasbro interactive R2 that I bought several years ago. Is the control software somehow derived from or inspired by that? Also, why is the buzzing sound produced before the motors are used? Nice work on the construction.

[therealbjoerngiesler]

@jkirchman79 The commands are inspired by the Hasbro droid (as a demo :-)), but the software or hardware have nothing to do with the Hasbro droid whatsoever. No interactive droids were harmed in the making of this video :-)

The buzzing sound is caused by the PWM modulated current that drives the motors. The sound stays the same (also the same level) regardless of drive speed, so when I slowly ramp up the speed, at first the droid doesn't move but the sound is already there.

[Samlynch2]

Nice work man! I would love a lifesized model of R2 though...

[Veraa65]

that is gay

[therealbjoerngiesler]

@Veraa65 No, actually the droid is heterosexual, judging from the way he wolf-whistles after Leia.