Cell Phone Brands

Cell Phone Brands

The cell phone works without wire on the basis of latest cellular technologies like; GSM, FDMA, CDMA, and GPRS technologies. All over the world-celebrated cell phone brands are endlessly providing newest and stylish cell phones for improving people’s life styles and communication power. Much trendier mobile phone companies are Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericcson, Samsung, LG and some others. All of these companies’ cellular phones have hard design structure and shapes. Which feel comfy to hold in hand and easy to adjust in pocket and bag.

Nokia Cell Phones

Nokia cell phones are good recognized all over the world due to their heavy-duty design shape and advance cellular technologies. Nokia has introduced many cellular devices; lately they have launched Nokia N-Series cell phones such as; Nokia N70 cell phone, Nokia N80 mobile phone, Nokia N93 cell phones and economical Nokia N95. Additionally, all Nokia phones have essential cellular features and provide good call class.

Motorola Cell Phones

Mostly Motorola cell phones design shapes are consist of attractive flip designs. All most all Motorola mobile phones providing superior call quality as well as sophisticated cell phone features. The more popular Motorola cell phone models are Motorola Krzr cell phone, Motorola c139 mobile, Motorola razr v300, Motorola L-Series Like; Motorola L2, L6 and Motorola L7 phones.

LG Cell Phones

LG also well-known as LG; which is continuously providing most recent electronic devices all over the world. LG cell phones have good marketing worth due to their attractive design shapes and fashionable styles. The more stylish LG cell phones are LG cg225 cell phone, LG VX8100 cell phone and LG PM225 mobile.

Sony Ericcson Cell Phones

Sony Ericcson cell phones are fine recognized over the world due to their high class graphics and outstanding sound quality. The famous Sony Ericcson mobile phones models are Sony Ericcson K610i cell phone, Sony Ericcson S-Series, Sony Ericcson Z-Series and recently launched Sony Ericcson W-Series.

Samsung Cell Phones

Samsung is well recognizable brand in electronic products due to their latest technologies and trustworthy design structures. In cell phone industry Samsung also has good status. The famous Samsung cell phones are Samsung D830 mobile phones, Samsung E909 cell phones and Samsung A707 cell phones.

SURVEYOR MOBILITY BASE KITS & ROBOT

SURVEYOR MOBILITY BASE KITS & ROBOT


Inertia Labs has partnered with Surveyor Corp to produce the mobility base for their SRV-1 Surveyor robot. The 4 motor design is designated the SRV-1Q for "quad" motor power.
This new design merges two of the electronics boards, uses 4 motors (one per wheel,) a low profile LiPoly 2000Mah 7.2v battery to make the whole unit more compact, faster, and stronger.
Like our other kits these chassis are designed around the Sanyo NA-series gearmotors, that have been specially made with long shafts for direct drive of the wheels and treads.
You can purchase the complete unit, just the base to update your older SRV, or components. The standard base is ready to run with the electronics from Surveyor. Only six wires need to be soldered.
You can also use this mobility base with a speed controller and Rx to make a treaded RC robot as with our other kits.
Questions or comments please contact zander@inertia-labs.com

Designed for research, education, and exploration, Surveyor's SRV-1 internet-controlled robot integrates a 1000MIPS 500MHz Analog Devices Blackfin BF537 processor, a digital video camera with resolution from 160x28 to 1280x1024 pixels, laser pointer ranging, and WLAN 802.11b/g networking on a quad-motor tracked mobile robotic base. Operating as a remotely-controlled webcam or a self-navigating autonomous robot, the SRV-1 can run onboard interpreted C programs or user-modified firmware, or be remotely managed from a Windows, Mac OS/X or Linux base station with Python or Java-based console software. The Java-based console software includes a built-in web server to monitor and control the SRV-1 via a web browser from anywhere in the world, as well as archive video feeds on demand or on a scheduled basis. Additional software support for the SRV-1 is also available by way of IPRE's Python-based Myro, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Cyberbotic's Webots, and RoboRealm machine vision software.

Complete SRV-1Q:

Features
Open Source design with full access to source code (GPL) and schematics
Robot is fully programmable for autonomous operation
Extensive software support through 3rd party applications
Teleoperate mode to drive robot around via console software or remotely via web browser
Host software has built-in web server and video archiving
Robot can run programs written in interpreted C and stored in onboard Flash
Wireless remote control or viewing up to 100m indoors and 1000m outdoors (line of sight)
Robot can be controlled from a terminal/console for easy testing
Linux 2.6 support as well as "bare metal" programming with GNU bfin-elf-gcc

Hardware

Processor: 1000mips 500MHz Analog Devices Blackfin BF537, 32MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash, JTAG
Camera: Omnivision OV9655 1.3 megapixel 160x128 to 1280x1024 resolution
Robot Radio: Lantronix Matchport 802.11b/g WiFi
Range: 100m indoors, 1000m line-of-site
Sensors: 2 laser pointers for ranging
Drive: Tank-style treads with differential drive via two precision DC gearmotors (100:1 gear reduction)
Speed: 20cm - 50cm per second (approx 1 foot/sec or .5 mile/hour)
Chassis: Machined Aluminum
Dimensions: 120mm long x 105mm wide x 75mm tall (5" x 4.1" x 3") (drawing)
Weight: 460gm (14oz)
Power: 7.2V 2000mAH Li-Poly battery pack - 4+ hours per charge
Charger: 100-240VAC 50/60Hz (US plug)
Software
Robot Firmware: easily updated, written in C language under GPL Open Source, compiled with GNU bfin-elf-gcc and bfin-uclinux-gcc toolchains
Onboard User Programming: interpreter for "small C" language with special robot-specific commands are provided for running user programs from onboard Flash memory
Development Tools: GNU toolchains via http://blackfin.uclinux.org
Console Software: Java based application, runs on Windows, MAC, Linux. WebcamSat web server module built into console software, allows multiple simultaneous remote viewers via Internet
Robot Control Protocol: Published here. Easily used from other applications
Third-party Software Support:
RoboRealm - The SRV-1 can now be directly controlled from RoboRealm, a very popular Windows-based machine vision software package for robots. The RoboRealm extensions for SRV-1 allow creation of scripts that combine image processing on live video feeds from the robot, e.g. color filtering, blob detection/tracking, edge detection/outlining and feature extraction, with decision processing and robot motion control, making it easy to create behaviors such as object location and tracking, obstacle avoidance, motion detection, notification, etc, with a web interface, and control can be scripted from C/C++, Python, Java, C#, Lisp, Visual Basic, WScript and COM through the RoboRealm API.o Microsoft Robotics Studio - Drivers for the SRV-1 in Microsoft Robotics Studio are now available. MSRS is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits include: end-to-end robotics development platform, lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable / extensible platform.o Myro - Myro is a new framework for programming robots. Myro is written in the language Python and designed for use in Introductory Computing courses, and has been developed by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education. The goal of the project is to provide a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware.o Webots - SRV-1 support is now included in Webots mobile robotics simulation software. Webots provides a rapid prototyping environment for modelling, programming and simulating mobile robots under Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux. The 3D modeling and physics are outstanding.

Experience Telepresence

Experience Telepresence

Be two places at once with QA, the new telepresence robot from Anybots. Enjoy complete freedom to move fluidly and interact with others in a remote location from the ease of your home or office.
QA operates simply, cleanly, and quietly while still giving you a full physical presence. It allows you to see and be seen, talk and listen, and collaborate in ways and places never before possible.

QA: The Telepresence Robot

Be two places at once with QA, the new telepresence robot from Anybots. Enjoy complete freedom to move fluidly and interact with others in a remote location from the ease of your home or office.
QA operates simply, cleanly, and quietly while still giving you a full physical presence. It allows you to see and be seen, talk and listen, and collaborate in ways and places never before possible.

Technical Specifications

• Batteries: rechargeable Li ion, 4-6 hours of operation
• Connectivity: 802.11g wireless (optional 3G cellular)
• Cameras: two 5 MP color, with ir illuminator
• Video: 20 FPS @ 640×480 (depending on network)
• Audio: full duplex, high fidelity
• Display: 7 inch (18 cm) color LCD in chest
• Laser pointer: green 10 mW, points and draws shapes
• Navigation: LIDAR, 5.5 yard (5 meter) range
• Speed: up to 6 MPH (10 km/h)
• Wheels: two 12 inch (30 cm) diameter rubber
• Height: 5 foot (152 cm) standing, 2 foot (61 cm) bending
• Weight: 30 pounds (14 kg)
• Client software: PC and Mac compatible
  

Robots in Development: Dexter & Monty

Dexter (5'10" tall, 135 pounds) balances dynamically on two legs, walks, jumps, and will be able to run. Monty (5'7" tall, 160 pounds) has one fully articulated hand (driven by 18 motors) and one gripper, and balances on two wheels.
Dexter and Monty have been under development since 2001. As they are refined further, they will be able to perform a wide range of manual labor tasks.
Dexter is quite different from other robots that have walked on two legs. The Honda ASIMO and related robots use a walking algorithm called Zero Moment Point or ZMP, a geometrical constraint that guarantees stability. To use this approach, a robot must have stiff joints (driven by geared servo motors) and fairly large feet. In the simplest version, the robot is given pre-planned movements that guarantee that a perpendicular drawn from the center of whichever foot is on the floor passes through the center of gravity, with some compensation for acceleration. Such a robot does not need active balance feedback to walk. While the most advanced ZMP-based robots do include active balance control to adapt to sloped floor surfaces or external forces, this is a refinement to a passively stable gait.
Dexter has a different, more human-like body on which ZMP control does not work. Its joints, driven by air cylinders, are springy and flexible like human muscle. There are no stable postures that it can be put in where it can balance without active feedback, so it has to constantly adjust based on its sense of balance -- the robot equivalent of your inner ear. It walks and balances the same way humans do, even wearing the same shoes humans wear.
Dexter's harder-to-control body has major advantages in the real world. It can walk just as easily on soft surfaces, like the deep carpet shown in the video, as on hard surfaces. Because its joints are flexible and able to absorb impact, it will be able to run at high speed over uneven ground and jump over obstacles. If it accidently steps on your toe, it won't hurt any more than a person stepping on your toe. But most importantly, because there is no geometrical principle by which we could have programmed a walking motion, it had to learn to walk. Its learning software will soon lead to a much wider range of walking abilities than could ever have been programmed.

Basics of making custom robot brackets and skeletal parts

Basics of making custom robot brackets and skeletal parts
—Cutting Sheet Metal with a Sherline Mill
Check out how Matt Bauer cuts and shapes metal pieces to make robot brackets. Click here for an ERB.zip file that contains .nc g-code files provided by Matt for the Sherline mill and a “how-to” .pdf.—the editors

I am the proud owner of several robots that range from simple toys to advanced humanoids, and one of them is seldom given the credit it deserves, given its abilities—my Sherline Products 2010 CNC mill. This precision machining tool is responsible for all of my latest custom and prototype work, and it's the workhorse behind some of the lighter manufacturing we do at Bauer Independents Ltd. The mill dramatically cuts down on the expense of having small quantities of parts machined or laser-cut elsewhere. And it is much more convenient to be able to trek on out to the shop, mill the part there and test the finished product not long after first drawing it on the computer.

For many, the greatest benefit of owning a CNC mill lies in its ability to cut three-dimensional parts out of stock materials that range from semi-rigid plastics to titanium. The stock is usually relatively thick in comparison to the part being milled, and it's held down with step-block clamps or placed in a vise. Rook's Pawn III, our competition-level humanoid, has a number of parts made of solid blocks of Delrin stock. His aluminum brackets, though, were all cut out of 0.040-inch-thick sheet and then bent on a box-pan break to form 3D shapes.
It doesn't take much effort to flex metal sheet that thin, and it can be a challenge to prevent the end mill from lifting a sheet that thin. This article provides hints on how to hold down sheet stock while you cut parts out..

I have received several emails inquiring about the cutting method that works best for me. A good solution was to make a tooling plate specific to my mill that could hold very thin sheet metal flat and secure at multiple points.
I recently discovered that Sherline Products does indeed list a mill tooling plate in its accessory catalog (item no. 3560). A tooling plate is typically used as an easy-to-modify work table for mounting job-specific tools or clamps. They are also an inexpensive alternative to exposing your mill's tabletop to damage resulting from machining mishaps. If the thin sheet you're cutting falls within a 4x10-inch footprint, this accessory is definitely worth buying, or you can make one from scratch.

Making a Custom Tooling Plate

I start by finding the mill's maximum travel—its range limits—in both the X and Y axes. The 2000 series mills allocate 7 inches of Y and 9 inches of X travel. These dimensions may vary according to your model and the way in which your mill is set up. I had a slab of 5/8-inch-thick, 6-inch wide 6061 aluminum lying around—plenty big for most of the work I do.
In this example, the maximum size of part being cut from one single sheet will reside within an area of 5.5 inch. by 9.0 inch. I measured 2 inches down from the top of the aluminum plate and 1/2 inch over from the left. This marks the center position of one of the capscrews that will hold the tooling plate on the mill's table. From there, I measured 1 1/2 inches down and marked the second position. Then, I repeated these measurements, this time 1/2 inch in from the right side (see photos with diagrams).

Tooling plate in extreme negative-Y position.

Tooling plate in extreme positive-Y direction.

An elegant, sophisticated humanoidfor developers

Speecys SPC-101C
An elegant, sophisticated humanoidfor developers
22 degrees of freedom include the ability to tilt thetorso backwards and forwards and rotate its wrists.by Lem Fugitt, www.robots-dreams.com

For years, Tomoaki Kasuga worked at Sony as a key member of the AIBO development team. He had a challenging and fulfilling job and was involved in one of the most well known and most highly respected robot projects in the world. But he wanted to do more. He had a dream.More than anything, he wanted to create a humanoid robot that would be completely open, an easy application development platform and could move around and actively communicate and interact with its environment. He wanted to design the type of robot that, as a software developer, he had always wanted to have but could never find on the market.Finally, his passion became so compelling that he struck out on his own, quit his job at Sony, obtained investment capital and established a new company, Speecys, which is dedicated to making his dream robot a reality. We had the opportunity to spend several weeks evaluating Kasuga's new SPC-101C robot and can say frankly that it is exciting, unique and a pleasure to work with.

22 Degrees of Freedom

Like many of the popular humanoid kits on the market, the robot stands 33cm (13 inches) tall and tips the scales at 1.5kg (3.3 pounds). But that's where the similarity ends. The SPC-101C has expanded the typical 16to 17 number of servos (degrees of freedom) to 22. The additional servos provide much more realistic motion and give the robot the ability to mimic human body language very closely. For example, the robot can tilt its torso backwards and forwards at the hips just like a human. This capability saw practical use during our testing when we needed the robot's built-in camera to look at an object on the floor directly in front of it without losing its balance.
The video camera, mounted in the head, provides surprisingly good image quality. The camera can be panned using the head servo and adjusted up and down by tilting the torso at the waist. Dual stereo speakers are built into the torso sides and provide quite good voice and sound quality when the robot is still. Unfortunately, the whine generated by moving servos sometimes tends to degrade the overall audio experience a bit.

The SPC-101C features 22

servos, stereo speakers,

unique LED displays and

a video camera that put it in

a class by itself.

Specially designed LED arrays in the hands and chest provide the ability to display characters, text, or block graphics such as a big red heart under program control. Think of them as robotic emoticons. Speecys needed the mechanical design to be highly reliable and dependable, so they work- ed very closely with Futaba and selected theproven RPU-50 CPU robot controller and RS301C servos. The controller and servos use RS485 Serial Communication that provides for querying the servos' positions, torque load, temperature and other parameters. The robot is powered by a Futaba 7.4V 780mAh Futaba LiPo battery, or, for extended programming sessions, it can be operated while plugged into the charger. It was great to be able to run a long test sequence without having to constantly worry about running out of battery power.
To get new users started, the ITR Motion Editor for Speecys ships along with the robot and features an interactive 3D editor display window, timelines, the integration of audio and voice files, control of the integral LED displays and a broad library of poses and motion files to chose from.

Wireless and Platform Independent

The robot's basic specifications are extremely competitive, but that's just the beginning of the story. Surprisingly, the robot's operating system is NetBSD, and it communicates using a USB Wireless Lan IEEE802.11G module. It even supports its own IP address. That makes the robot truly platform independent. As long as your system can send it commands and data in the correct formats, it doesn't matter whether you run on Windows, or Mac OS, or Linux, or your application is written in Visual Basic, C#, Java, or any other development language.
And as long as the robot has wireless connectivity to the Internet, it doesn't matter whether you operate it from 5 feet or 5,000 miles away. One of our tests involved operating the robot from a remote room on a different floor in the building, and it passed with flying colors. Along the same lines, Speecys has developed proof-of-concept remote presence applications utilizing Skype to allow the transmission of the robot's video feed along with control commands.

Open Source Software Development Kit

To actively stimulate application development for the robot, Speecys developed an SDK appropriately named “Open Roads.” The SDK can be downloaded from their website and is completely royalty-free, even for commercial applications. The underlying SDK approach is surprisingly simple: you communicate with the robot using TCP/IP socket data streams, and each command has its own basic data packet format that's very logical and easy to understand. Almost all of the data file formats are flat ASCII text, but there are a few exceptions such as the audio files.With simplicity often comes power. The open SDK and data formats facilitate the use of a wealth of well established, proven application libraries. For example, the Microsoft .Net 3.0 System Speech libraries can be used to add voice recognition and synthesized speech to the robot. Video capture, object recognition and tracking and other advanced functionality can also be added using the same approach.

A great deal of attention was paid to the robot design, including layout, circuit boards and wire routing.

Grant Imahara VEXPlorer robot Challenge Winners!

The First Place winner, CHEMBOT.

In our last issue, we announced the Grant Imahara VEXplorer Robot Challenge, sponsored by Revell, Innovation First, Inc. (IFI), Solidworks Corporation and Robot magazine. The contest, which was broadly announced on robotics news websites, gave 25 robot enthusiasts a chance to compete for a $5,000 scholarship grand prize and a $2,000 second-place prize. Ten more contestants were given a chance to win $200 gift certificates redeemable at www.vexrobotics.com. Many dozens applied, and we selected 25 to build their robots.

The Second Place winner,

Walking Quadruped Dinosaur.The contest entailed using the VEXplorer kit and any additional robotics parts (up to a limit of $100) from www.vexrobotics.com to create a unique and original application, which then had to be posted as a video on YouTube by June 1. These limitations set a level playing field (minor additions such as masking tape, glue, string, paper towels, etc,. to complete the application were deemed to be within the scope of the rules). Contestants were given additional points for the use of SolidWorks software and for good videography. “Mythbuster” Grant Imahara picked the winners.
We are pleased to announce the overall winner: Gustavo Goretkin’s ChemBot took first place. Gustavo, congratulations on winning the $5,000 scholarship prize! In second place were Jared Schwartz and Tom Lundberg with their Walking Quadruped Dinosaur. Although the second prize was initially set at $2,000, Grant and the contest sponsors were so impressed by Tom and Jared’s robot that they awarded each a $2,000 scholarship. We thank all who applied and all 25 contestants for the tremendous effort and fantastic creativity shown in their entries. See them all at www.vexrobotics.com. Contestants who did not make the winner’s list will be given a free one-year subscription to Robot in appreciation of their entries. Original applicants who did not make the contestant cut and those who are not listed as winners, will be sent complimentary copies of the SolidWorks Student Edition.
CHEMBOT 1ST—$5,000 SCHOLARSHIP GRAND PRIZE!Gustavo Goretkin, a student of the Broward Virtual School, has participated in the FIRST robotics program of Dillard High School for the past three years. He has also mentored a FIRST Lego League team at Hallandale Elementary for two years. His interests lie in computer intelligence, robotics engineering and in technology, generally. Chembot can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=La9j5eEnEvU
Gustavo notes “Chembot is remotely operated and designed to conduct experiments from a safe distance from the experimenter. The onboard camera allows the robot to relay images of the materials it is manipulating and allows the researcher to observe the experiment. The robot’s arm assembly is mounted on a Cartesian coordinate system. The base moves in a single axis (both sides of the drivetrain are linked by an axle), and a linear slider system is mounted perpendicularly to the base’s axis. The shoulder, which is mounted on the sliding base, supports the rest of the components.
“A wrist was added; it provides the gripper with two additional degrees of freedom. The tilting angle of the wrist allows the gripper to always remain parallel to the horizontal plane so that materials are not spilled while moving from one vertical position to another. The rotational degree of freedom rotates about the grabbing axis, and it allows the robot to pour materials from a container.”

FMTC - Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre

FMTC - Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre

Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre vzw (FMTC) is an initiative of Agoria, the Belgian multisector federation for the technology industry, and 14 leading mechatronic companies in Flanders.

The Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre has the mission to jointly develop new and improve existing generic mechatronic competences and technologies and in so doing strengthen the competitive edge of its member companies. For achieving this, the centre executes industry driven research projects.

To realize its mission FMTC closely cooperates with the Production engineering, Machine design and Automation division (PMA) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and with Sirris.

For its operation, the centre is supported by the Flemish government (via the IWT).

The latest annual report of FMTC is available here