DanceBot, a Balancing Robot that can Dance

Hanno Sander

mydancebot.com

Fri Apr 04 15:10:00 NZDT 2008 in Room 031, Erskine Building

Abstract

In this talk we discuss the principles involved in balancing a robot on two wheels. We'll cover embedded system design, sensor input, sensor fussion using the Kalman filter, and fuzzy logic control. We'll finish with a demonstration of the balancing robot covered in this article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4429872a24096.html

Biography

Hanno Sander received his degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1995. During his studies he managed student projects including a hybrid car, a micro-satellite and a rabies vaccination project in Brazil. In 1995 he founded Daptyx to develop customized information services. The first product was an adaptive newspaper which monitored a reader's click-stream and used genetic programming to tune a model to predict future behavior. After selling Daptyx to Oracle in 1997, Hanno transitioned to product marketing/management at Oracle. His first project was the File System feature now part of the Oracle database. Hanno continued his career at Verity and Yahoo, continuously delivering massively scalable consumer and enterprise software products, directing market strategies, people and organizational excellence, defining and translating company strategies into innovative technology products in diverse markets. Since 2005 he's developed sophisticated, yet affordable robots from Christchurch, New Zealand.