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Self learning robots

Posted Mon, 2011-04-18 20:19 by Francis

Most robots have a task pre-programmed in their program memory. However, sometimes it is difficult to think of a good algorithm. Wouldn't it be great to have a self-learning robot in those situations? In this article we show an example of a robot learning to crawl forward using Q-learning. In the beginning the robot makes some clumsy moves, but as the robot learns, it becomes more and more proficient in crawling forward.

Driving a led display and the Snake game

Posted Sat, 2011-02-19 20:06 by Sean

Combining a Dwengo board with a 8x8 LED matrix allows us to do some cool stuff. For the course engineering project 2 External link of the 2nd bachelor in computer science at Ghent University some students programmed a driving mechanism for a LED matrix so they could play the Snake game on it.

Physics experiment: Measuring gravitational acceleration

Posted Sat, 2011-02-12 22:16 by Francis

The Dwengo board is ideal for setting up a cheap physics experiment. We illustrate this by measuring the gravitational acceleration using: three cheap proximity sensors, the Dwengo board and the Dwengo breadboard

Sumorobot

Posted Tue, 2011-01-04 19:35 by Francis

The Dwengo board is the ideal platform for building your own autonomous robot. In our tutorials we show how to build a light-eating robot. With a few extra sensors you can extend the robot to a sumorobot which is ready to participate in a sumo robot competition.

An autonomous navigating robot

Posted Tue, 2010-07-20 19:50 by Michiel

The Dwengo board is very well suited to build intelligent robots. Elsewhere on this site, you can find examples of sumo robots, a self learning crawling robots and we have a tutorial that explains how to build your own light eating robot. You can participate in several robot competitions with your robot, organized by hobby clubs, schools and universities, ...