Dear Laptop

Making software is not as easy as I think, my old laptop now is very easy to heat up i feel like i can fry an egg on it. Seriously it is so damn hot even I am using cooler fan. Lepaking at the lab is very unconvenience especially when you like to stay up all night. hahaha. But work must be done and you must be strong.. Be strong my laptop, let us fight till the end!

Hardware??

Making a robot used lots of funding, I guess I cannot made any hardware. I cannot afford any of the humanoid robot, and i don't darer making one which for me will be a disastrous and wasting money. I think I just want to go by software and in future any Junior who would like to continue this project can start making one.

One obstacles that I can see happening in future. I am not defeated but I know my limits. I guess I just go with the flow throughout this and may God have mercy on me In Shaa Allah.

Methodology #1

Hi,

Methdology will change from time to time hence I put number there so it will made me remember how difficult to get results. 

So first methodology suggestion is;

Software: 

 

I-cub simulator- The iCub is the humanoid robot developed at IIT as part of the EU project RobotCub and subsequently adopted by more than 20 laboratories worldwide. It has 53 motors that move the head, arms & hands, waist, and legs. It can see and hear, it has the sense of body configuration and movement by using accelerometers and gyroscopes. The iCub will improve on this in order to give the iCub the sense of touch and to grade how much force it exerts on the environment.

To control the iCub there is software simulations that can be downloaded to from the internet for free. The simulations will help to simulate iCub like the real one even the iCub is not with us. 

Webots- Webots is a professional robot simulator widely used for educational purposes. The Webots project started in 1996, initially developed by Dr. Olivier Michel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Webots uses the ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) for detecting of collisions and simulating rigid body dynamics. The ODE library allows one to accurately simulate physical properties of objects such as velocity, inertia and friction. A large collection of freely modifiable robot models comes in the software distribution. In addition, it is also possible to build new models from scratch. When designing a robot model, the user specifies both the graphical and the physical properties of the objects. The graphical properties include the shape, dimensions, position and orientation, colors, and texture of the object. The physical properties include the mass, friction factor, as well as the spring and damping constants. Webots includes a set of sensors and actuators frequently used in robotic experiments, e.g. proximity sensors, light sensors, touch sensors, GPS, accelerometers, cameras, emitters and receivers, servo motors (rotational & linear), position and force sensor, LEDs, grippers, gyros and compass. The robot controller programs can be written in C, C++, Java, Python and MATLAB. Webots offers the possibility to take PNG screen shots and to record the simulations as MPEG (Mac/Linux) and AVI (Windows) movies. Webots worlds are stored in cross-platform .wbt files which format is based on the VRML language. It is also possible to import and export Webots worlds or objects in the VRML format. Another useful feature is that the user can interact with a running simulation at any time, for an example it is possible to move the robots and other object with the mouse. Webots is used in several online robot programming contests 

Literature review

Assalamualaikum, In the name of Allah the Most Beneficial, The Most Merciful. 

 so for journal that I read for basic motions from 2009 to 2010 i only search it from the scholar, hehehe. Below are few journal for my references for this project

 • V Mohan et al.: In Humanoid Robots, as in Humans, Bipedal Standing Should Come before Bipedal Walking: Implementing the Functional Reach Test, Italy, 145-153, (2013)

 • H. Niimi et al.: The Development of Small Size Humanoid Robot which is Easy to Use, Japan, (2010)

• C. Liu et al.: A Flexible-Waist Quadruped Robot Imitating Infant Crawl, China, 455-463, (2012)

• C. Li et al.: Humanoids learning to walk: a natural CPG-actor-critic architecture, Sweden, (2012)

• D. Brown : Simulation and Control of Humanoid Rolling and Falling Behaviours, USA, (2012)

• R.C. Luo et al.: Towards active Actuated Natural Walking Humanoid Robot legs, Taiwan, (2011)

• Jialun Yang and Feng Gao: Classification of Sitting States for the Humanoid Robot SJTU-HRI, China, (2011)

 • S. Pchelkin et al.: Natural Sit-Down and Chair-Rise Motions for a Humanoid Robot, Norway (2010)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limb_(anatomy)

• Sherry Rauh, 2006, Is your baby on track?

there are many more and I will share throughout my journey completing this project.

May Allah ease my journey

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”--Mahatma Gandhi

yeah mahatma I am learning :P

Humanoid robot.

Assalamualaikum, In the name of Allah the Most Beneficial, The Most Merciful

Hi everyone, part of this project that interest me the most is I might get to used humanoid robot (and trying to program them on the other hand is so .........................) below is the example of humanoid robot which is used as toys by rich kids hehehe ( its actually for competition i just kidding there) 

you basically can assemble them using your own ideas it can be in many form, dog form, humanoid form and any others and also in malaysia the bioloid is around RM5k and mindstorms is around RM2k and its basically not cheap. And I am hoping not to break anything throughout this project Amin..

“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” 

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thank you for believing me with this kind of toys. hehehe

First Chapter

Assalamualaikum, In the name Of Allah The most Beneficial, The most Merciful.
Hi everyone, first chapter has been send to the faculty and also my sv well I do get words of courage from him. hehehe. Basically what I am trying to obtain with this project is to have a robot that is automatically does basic thing in maybe by pushing a button. In my research this is what I get while comparing both human baby and also iCub. You might be see the different in the age inverted intelligence pyramid below:

As I believe basics is the most important things to master for more advance motions. Well you cannot walk first and learn to sit later, it has sequence, and by this sequence I would like to have in my project.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”-Albert Einstein

So I am praying for a miracle and hoping that suddenly my inner software engineering come alive. hehehe

i-Cub

Assalamualaikum, In the name Of Allah The most Beneficial, The most Merciful.

Source : Google

"iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence.It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium, of several European universities and is now supported by other projects such as ITALK. The robot is open-source, with the hardware design, software and documentation all released under the GPL license. The name is a partial acronym, cub standing for Cognitive Universal Body. Initial funding for the project was €8.5 million from Unit E5 – Cognitive Systems and Robotics – of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme, and this ran for sixty five months from 1 September 2004 until 31 January 2010.

The motivation behind the strongly humanoid design is the embodied cognition hypothesis, that human-like manipulation plays a vital role in the development of human cognition. A baby learns many cognitive skills by interacting with its environment and other humans using its limbs and senses, and consequently its internal model of the world is largely determined by the form of the human body. The robot was designed to test this hypothesis by allowing cognitive learning scenarios to be acted out by an accurate reproduction of the perceptual system and articulation of a small child so that it could interact with the world in the same way that such a child does." - Wikipedia

The first Post

In the name of Allah The most Merciful The most Beneficial,

Assalamualaikum and Good morning.

This blog is created to shared about my final year project. Let me introduce myself first, My name is Nurazila bte Mohamad Amjis, everyone can call me mostly whatever they want, I don't really care, but I prefer Zila. I am a final year first degree student from University Malaysia Pahang which Located in Pekan, Pahang Malaysia. I am taking Bachelor Degree of Mechatronics Engineering. When this blog is created I did not yet decided the main title of my project and still have doubt on myself either I will pass with flying colours, black and white or just died trying.I would like this blog to be enjoyable and less stressful as I wrote my journey in here. I don't want this to also be a stressful reading materials for other people too. I don't usually talks to stranger to much unless I have to. My final project actually will consist i-cub, rolling elements and software. My sv is Dr. Ng Liang Shing. Any inquiries or idea or anything you would like to know about me can be mail to ziela.ma@gmail.com or twitter @zielaamjis (but in twitter usually my random babbling :P) . So thank you very much to finish reading this, it might be a turning point where i wrote good reading material instead of just babbling after this, your prayers and support is much needed. Thank you!