Downloads: Odometry Project
Summer 2008 Final Project Supporting Information

Lecture Slides

Final Words on Project (More lecture slides)

Video referenced in slides (a typical UMBmark)

Example of a file you would be given on Demo Day
This is the same example shown in the slides. You can expect that paths will end near the origin to make it easier to measure the positions. Length and turns will vary, but with an attempt to make them similar in overall loss of accuracy. You will be given a link to a file to download as your 15-minute demo period begins.

Prelab and Lab Exercises for July 7/8

See UPCP site for proposal and logbook downloads

Needed for Prelab and Lab Exercises:

Datasheet for amigobot.bdf This describes the module that interfaces with SCOMP to provide access to the robot hardware.

Sample ASM file referred to in prelab assignment

Simple Computer Files These include a top-level amigobot.bdf file and the AmigoBot interface device and other I/O devices (needed for familiarization, in last step of Prelab)
UPDATE: These files were updated on July 10 at 6:15 PM. The new version should provide more reliable serial communications between the UP2 board and the robot, virtually eliminating the possibility of an intermittent bad position reading. You can update your existing code simply by extracting rcvamigo.vhd and commctrl.vhd in this zip file, then copying over top of the same files in any working directories you have. RECOMPILE, of course.

amigotest.sof (not needed for prelab)

UP2 documentation (not needed for prelab): Pages 6-10, and some other material, deal with the MAX chip, and can be ignored. Pages 11-17 cover the pin locations, and will be of the most interest. You should never have to change any jumpers on the board, and you should find downloading (i.e., "programming/configuring") to be the same as with the UP3 board, except for the device assignment.


Needed for second week and beyond:

Peer Review Form If Peer Review Forms are NOT submitted by at least two members of a team, it will be assumed that team members were basically satisfied about the contributions of all. Forms can be submitted directly to your GTA electronically or by special arrangement to meet with him privately, but this should be done ASAP.

VIDEO of a demo run from fall 2005

Robot Self-Test programs

  1. EGADS by Louis Howe, Clarissa Grayson, and Grant Saylor
  1. Robot Self-Test by Karan Asnani, Karan Chopra, and Matthew Bishop

Other information that may be of use:

AmigoBot Technical Reference Manual

Daughterboard Schematic

Daughterboard Layout