1. Stephane Guerreau – Marc Fournier

2. M.A.R.V.I.N.

3. M.A.R.V.I.N.
“Mobile Autonomous Robotic Virtual Intelligence Node”
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 “Make A Robot Virtually Intelligent Now”
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Main Features
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Smart Navigation
Various visual and audio interactions
Connectivity
Remote Control

4. Anatomy
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Raspberry Pi “brain”
Barebone ATmega as central nervous system
Servo driver for motor functions
Sensors, camera and external devices for
perception
Intend to reproduce life behaviour
• Environnement analysis and interaction
• Inlude some Chaotics reactions to create new
behaviours

5. Hardware – M.A.R.V.I.N.

6. How it is built ?
Refurbished Vacuum Cleaner Base

7. How it is built ?
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Raspberry Pi
Barebone Atmega328
Servo Driver
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Screen breakout board
• 3,3v and 5v I²C
• 3,3v UART
• Logic Converter, RTC
• Shutdown button

8. How it is built ?
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2.8” Touchscreen
• Connected to Raspi
• Python Control interface
• Real-time Video

9. How it is built ?

10. Software – Raspi
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Libs (python, simpleCV, espeak..)
LCD Drivers
Python Scripts
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Graphic Interface
UDP to UART 'proxy'
Sensors / Navigation
Camera
Bot control
Domotic

11. Smart Navigation
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Smart indoor navigation
• Infrared Sensors
• Ultrasonic Ping ))
• Pan / Tilt Ultrasonic Ping
• Embed Camera
• Access to existing Home Devices (network cameras,
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domotic nodes, etc..)
Generates its own telemetry charts
Environnement Mapping / learning
• In Dev

12. Vision
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Real-time camera
Network streaming / recording
Detection (Motion, blobs, objects...)
Access to external cameras

13. Connectivity
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Mobile Wifi Client and AP
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Secure gateway
• DHCP server
• OpenVPN
• OwnCloud server
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Send / Receive video and data through network
Share infos with Home Automation and others
connected Bots.

14. Remote Control
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Joystick control
• Direction
• Pan / tilt servo
• Modes switching
• Camera controls
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Remote Control
• Full Control
• Video display
• Python interface or Http access

15. Speech
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Static Text to speech
• Read pre-formated text
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Dynamic Text to speech (in dev)
• Can choose from various text
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Voice recognition (with Julius – in dev)

16. Remote Controller – Pip boy
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17. Remote Controller – Pip boy
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Pip boy also include
• User Desktop (Lxde)
• Game emulation (MAME)

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For fun : MARVIN mini-pet
Refurbished Parallax Boe-Bot
• Basic Stamp2 Board
• 2 x continous servos
• 1 x 180° pan servo
• 2 x Infrared Led + Receiver
• 1 x UltraSonic Ping ))
• Used for quick tests
• Easy to code performant
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navigation
Funny “alive personality”
by adding some chaotic
code events

19. Links
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www.hardware-libre.fr
http://www.youtube.com/user/HardwareLibre
google+