Welcome to our blog.

This blog is dedicated to our project: Swarm tracking System. We started this at the request of our school the PXL university college. The purpose of the project is to coordinate one or more Doodle Bots using feedback from a camera.

We plan to achieve this by using a centralized server connected to the Doodlers and the camera who will do all the image processing and calculations. Meanwhile a client can connect to the server to take control over the Doodle Bots. This can easily be done using JavaScript though we are unsure whether this might negatively influence the performance. The Doodle Bots will use Bluegiga's BLE112 to communicate with the server. The usefull thing about the BLE112 is that it can also be used to control our bots. The camera, a Logitec C270, will be suspended over the surface on which the swarm will draw, this way it will have the best view.

The underlying purpose of this project is not to make a product to sell or distribute (although it will be completely open source) but primary this project is supposed to teach us stuff only experience can teach.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Progress week 6 & 7

Sorry about not posting last week,we were caught up in another project. But here's a quick update on our work. Last two weeks we have worked on the tracking software. We got that to a pretty refined level. The software is able to track an object marked with two colors at a relatively high speed an accuracy. It can even detect the direction of the object. We will post a showcase of the software on this blog and we will also upload the code to Github.
The other thing we did last week was develop a prototype of  the control electronics of our DoodleBot. we will also upload a picture or two of that early this week.
This week we will try to figure out the programming language of the BLE112, BGscript. and we will also try to make the BLE112 usable for our prototype electronics. So far we have been using an Arduino Uno as a substitute.
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