Future Ideas

Here's a short list of ideas for the further development of the HamsterBot. Currently, the robot can react to the mouse correctly, and has fairly good MCL mapping abilities, courtesy of the directional bump sensor. Unfortunately it is a very jerky platform, and it doesn't use all the sensors avaliable to the robot in its MCL model. Goals for the remaining part of the semester, include:

- Smoothing acceleration
- Setting minimum and maximum allowable velocity
- Including cliff sensor data in the MCL model
- Replacing the hamsterball (the old one had to be returned)

For now, these seem to be a good start. If these are accomplished quickly, there's always the idea of adding an offboard camera to track the roomba's progress, and perhaps even automatically generate the map used for MCL.

More media will be available shortly once the hamsterball is replaced and I can try more test runs.