Activities

Projects

RoCKIn

We are creating a robot for helping in domestic tasks. Using this robot we want to enter the RoCKIn@home international competition.

MYRABot robot.

Robot Hardware

1. iRobot Roomba 520, Arduino Mega, and wooden frame (yes, it is made of wood) to build our MYRABOT platform
2. Dinamixel Arm (5x12a) for mobile manipulation of small rigid objects.
3. Notebook (Atom processor) (the display has been taken apart from the main body)
4. Kinect for 3D object recognition

Robot Software

1. ROS (robot control)
2. MYRA (C/C++, ArUCo, Qt, openCV)

Presentation (Spanish)

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Acknowledgments

Fab-Lab León

Cátedra Telefónica-Unileon

Cátedra Telefónica

2012-2013 Cátedra Telefónica - Universidad de León keep supporting the project.

2011-2012 The Cátedra Telefónica - Universidad de León awarded a project for Augmented Reality in remote assistance of elderly people.

Hack For Good 2013

Proposals for HackForGood can be found here

Courses

• European Robotics Week Conference [| Low Cost Robots for RoCKIn Challenge ]November 27th, 2013
• Course Introduction to Mobile Robot Programming (4th edition). October 22nd to 26th , 2012

• Conference "Augmented reality for elderly medication control using a mobile robot" at the Curso de Verano Envejecimiento Activo.

• Conference "The role of edutainment robotics in mechatronics research and teaching" by José Luis Lima and José Gonçalves from the Politechical Institute of Bragança, on November 4, 2011.

• Course Mobile Robot Programming, medium level (1st edition). March 2011.

• Seminar on BICA programming in the SPITeam for the RoboCup2011. Instructors: Francisco Martín and Carlos E. Agüero from URJC Robotics Group.

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• Course Introduction to Mobile Robot Programming (3rd edition). December 9 to 23, 2010.

• Course Introduction to Mobile Robot Programming (2nd edition). March 8 to 12, 2010.

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• Course Mobile Robot programming. July 1 to 7, 2009.

In the Press

• Innova Prize to the best IT project, given by local newspaper (Diario de León).

• Article about Fernando's work on mobile robots Suplemento Innova (Diario de León)

• Juan Felipe awarded as young talent 2012 by Diario de León.
• Article about using mobile robots in La Crónica.

• Conference on social robotics applied to handicapped people. Organized by CRE:

1. Information about the event at CRE's webpage.

1. Press note at Diario de León.

• Press Note about Juan's PhD Viva.

• Yet another info in the local newspaper, about a project on robotics for security.

• The same one in the local TV:

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• Another review in the local newspapers: Leonnoticias, and La Crónica, about the team entering the Mediterranean Open (Rome, March 18 to 20, 2010).

• Interview in the local newspaper (Diario de León): first one and second one.

• We are proud members of the TeamChaos RoboCup SPL team. We have contributed the goalie to the team for the RoboCup 2009 and German Open 2009.

• CompCog Workshop ESF on Held in the University of León, May 26 to 27, 2009.

• Introduction seminar to Nao programming (Instructor Dr. Francisco Martín Rico),

SPIteam

We are proud members of the Spanish Team (SPITeam) for the RoboCup Standard Platform providing a goalkeeper.

Goalkeeper save

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Goalkeeper movement and save

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