ELWO robot system(abbreviation for Electronic Wonder) was developed as a highly flexible robotic platform prototype for multipurpose robot development with minimal cost as possible. The theme of this project was to provide highly useful robot systems so that they can be easily afforded by household users mainly in developing countries like India.
Overview
In developing countries like India, robotics has practically zero significance as household users are concerned. This is due to two reasons. The first reason is that normal robots with its complex hardware are costly piece of apparatus for developing country citizens as their average
income might not allow then afford. Secondly, as far as the people are concerned, it might not be a feasible option for employing a robot for household tasks.
ELWO robotic system was designed around this scenario. To tackle the problem of cost, ELWO was designed with minimum hardware possible and was interfaced to a personal computer which employed purpose built driver software (Daimler) to manipulate the functions of the robot. Personal computers are a common device in now a day home. So the cost of complex hardware is eliminated by using the PC to do this additional job also. So the cost of the system phenomenally reduces.
Daimler driver software was programmed using Microsoft Visual Basic .net and hence it provided easy programming and communicability. By just switching the driver’s function and with minor changes to the arm of the robot, it can be switched from one function to another hence it can be feasible to be used for a variety of household jobs.
History
ELWO robotic system was designed during 2008 by four Engineering students Bharath Sudev, Shanawaz, Shahin and Lijuraj from Kerala state of India as part of the final project work of their
Electronics and Communication Engineering course under Anna University.
ELWO project was guided by Mr. P.B Sudharmadev and Dr. P.B. Sudev who were Bharath’s father’s elder brother and Bharath’s father respectively.
The mechanical hardware designed by were not easy to be implemented as foretasted. Even for making the wheels, no metal workers at Trivandrum(capital of Kerala State) were ready to do the lathe work as they were not interested to do such silly jobs.
Just to make the wheels, the team had to go and stay at a place called Varkala(about 60 km from Trivandrum) for two days so that an old friend owning a workshop could do the job in short intervals he got in between his heavy schedule of work.
Finally the work was finished with some delay.
Initially after the completion of the project, the ELWO team suffered physiological set backs from the part of the college as it was totally neglected and the team were not even allowed to make the preview of the project stating that they were too late to report the proceedings of the project work to the department.
Situation drastically changed when a news of ELWO robotic system along with photo were published on a Malayalam daily news paper ‘Kerala Kaumudi’ and a documentary about the system was telecasted by a Malayalam News Channel ‘INDIAVISION’.
Later news followed in another Malayalam News channel “Manorama News” and about five Tamil news channels.
Reports about ELWO were later published on other five Malayalam Daily News papers and more than five Tamil Daily News papers.
(to see documentary on ELWO at Indiavision channel on youtube click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcLKgCCZ9c])
Operating modes
ELWO has three operating modes
Automatic mode : In this mode, all the working of robot is automatically controlled by the computer on pre programmed basis. In this mode, no human intervention is needed, and it works precisely on the function for which its programmed for.
Manual mode : This mode is entirely dedicated to real time human input. It can be made to operate by using a joystick or the keyboard of the PC by direct visual reference or by the aid of two onboard cameras.
Man-o-matic Mode : This mode enables human users to dictate a specific job to the robot to perform. Once dictated by using the joystick or keyboard, then ELWO can be switch to work on the same pattern as dictated before for any number of times as needed.
Automation Software
The driver software for ELWO namely ‘Daimler’ named after Gottlieb Daimler due to admiration for him on his contributions on the development of petrol engine design.
Daimler v1.0 was programmed in Microsoft Visual Basic .net and was designed to be a user friendly prototype so as to inspire interested researchers on developing more advanced operational driver software so that ELWO can be more practical a choice.
Daimler v1.0 was rather a basic design, just incorporating the three mode selectors and various displays of parameters and a display for the on-board CCD camera. As it was programmed in Visual Basic .net, it could be easily reprogrammed or upgraded for more complex operations. .net being a powerful platform, it was possible to easily program ELWO to work from the input from internet and thus work online.
Overview
In developing countries like India, robotics has practically zero significance as household users are concerned. This is due to two reasons. The first reason is that normal robots with its complex hardware are costly piece of apparatus for developing country citizens as their average
income might not allow then afford. Secondly, as far as the people are concerned, it might not be a feasible option for employing a robot for household tasks.
ELWO robotic system was designed around this scenario. To tackle the problem of cost, ELWO was designed with minimum hardware possible and was interfaced to a personal computer which employed purpose built driver software (Daimler) to manipulate the functions of the robot. Personal computers are a common device in now a day home. So the cost of complex hardware is eliminated by using the PC to do this additional job also. So the cost of the system phenomenally reduces.
Daimler driver software was programmed using Microsoft Visual Basic .net and hence it provided easy programming and communicability. By just switching the driver’s function and with minor changes to the arm of the robot, it can be switched from one function to another hence it can be feasible to be used for a variety of household jobs.
History
ELWO robotic system was designed during 2008 by four Engineering students Bharath Sudev, Shanawaz, Shahin and Lijuraj from Kerala state of India as part of the final project work of their
Electronics and Communication Engineering course under Anna University.
ELWO project was guided by Mr. P.B Sudharmadev and Dr. P.B. Sudev who were Bharath’s father’s elder brother and Bharath’s father respectively.
The mechanical hardware designed by were not easy to be implemented as foretasted. Even for making the wheels, no metal workers at Trivandrum(capital of Kerala State) were ready to do the lathe work as they were not interested to do such silly jobs.
Just to make the wheels, the team had to go and stay at a place called Varkala(about 60 km from Trivandrum) for two days so that an old friend owning a workshop could do the job in short intervals he got in between his heavy schedule of work.
Finally the work was finished with some delay.
Initially after the completion of the project, the ELWO team suffered physiological set backs from the part of the college as it was totally neglected and the team were not even allowed to make the preview of the project stating that they were too late to report the proceedings of the project work to the department.
Situation drastically changed when a news of ELWO robotic system along with photo were published on a Malayalam daily news paper ‘Kerala Kaumudi’ and a documentary about the system was telecasted by a Malayalam News Channel ‘INDIAVISION’.
Later news followed in another Malayalam News channel “Manorama News” and about five Tamil news channels.
Reports about ELWO were later published on other five Malayalam Daily News papers and more than five Tamil Daily News papers.
(to see documentary on ELWO at Indiavision channel on youtube click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcLKgCCZ9c])
Operating modes
ELWO has three operating modes
Automatic mode : In this mode, all the working of robot is automatically controlled by the computer on pre programmed basis. In this mode, no human intervention is needed, and it works precisely on the function for which its programmed for.
Manual mode : This mode is entirely dedicated to real time human input. It can be made to operate by using a joystick or the keyboard of the PC by direct visual reference or by the aid of two onboard cameras.
Man-o-matic Mode : This mode enables human users to dictate a specific job to the robot to perform. Once dictated by using the joystick or keyboard, then ELWO can be switch to work on the same pattern as dictated before for any number of times as needed.
Automation Software
The driver software for ELWO namely ‘Daimler’ named after Gottlieb Daimler due to admiration for him on his contributions on the development of petrol engine design.
Daimler v1.0 was programmed in Microsoft Visual Basic .net and was designed to be a user friendly prototype so as to inspire interested researchers on developing more advanced operational driver software so that ELWO can be more practical a choice.
Daimler v1.0 was rather a basic design, just incorporating the three mode selectors and various displays of parameters and a display for the on-board CCD camera. As it was programmed in Visual Basic .net, it could be easily reprogrammed or upgraded for more complex operations. .net being a powerful platform, it was possible to easily program ELWO to work from the input from internet and thus work online.
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Jane Burgermeister (Bürgermeister in German) is a science journalist who filed allegations of bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and others with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) .
According to her own websites, "Jane Burgermeister was born in Switzerland of an Irish mother and an Austrian father, and lives in Vienna, Austria. She received an MA Honours degree from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and has written for Nature, the British Medical Journal, The Scientist, Reuters Health, and The Guardian among other publications. She was European Correspondent for the website of Renewable Energy World, a position from which she was dismissed in July 2009 after making allegations of bioterrorism with the intent to commit mass murder against Baxter, the World Health Organisation and others."
Burgermeister appeared for the first time on camera when she was interviewed in Vienna by Project Camelot on the 8th of September, 2009. On this interview she gives her background as a medical editor, and points out the method that different governments might follow to enforce the mass vaccination.
Jane Burgermeister (Bürgermeister in German) is a science journalist who filed allegations of bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and others with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) .
According to her own websites, "Jane Burgermeister was born in Switzerland of an Irish mother and an Austrian father, and lives in Vienna, Austria. She received an MA Honours degree from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and has written for Nature, the British Medical Journal, The Scientist, Reuters Health, and The Guardian among other publications. She was European Correspondent for the website of Renewable Energy World, a position from which she was dismissed in July 2009 after making allegations of bioterrorism with the intent to commit mass murder against Baxter, the World Health Organisation and others."
Burgermeister appeared for the first time on camera when she was interviewed in Vienna by Project Camelot on the 8th of September, 2009. On this interview she gives her background as a medical editor, and points out the method that different governments might follow to enforce the mass vaccination.
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Biography
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Biography
Khan was born in Karachi, although he comes from a Pathan family from Buner. He is the youngest in the family. After completing his bachelors in commerce, he did his MBA. He works with PSO as a coordination executive.
Ameer entered the fashion industry when a friend took him to Creative Services and he started doing shows with Frieha Altaf. He met Khawar Riaz at the first Lux Style Awards ceremony and was invited to Lahore. At the time he did only one shoot, and then left the scene for two years to complete his MBA. When he returned, he joined Khawar and has been working with him since then.
Besides modelling, he likes sports and reading. He loves eating continental cuisine.
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Product Overview
The software is a hosted solution, with monthly, annual, and lifetime licenses for access to the application. Software may be installed at both the host and client. The software provides the standard tools for remote desktop control such as file transfer, chat, session recording, reboot & reconnect, multiple monitor support, but currently does not support adding other people to the session without upgrading to the professional version. The software uses an 256 SSL encryption.
Licensing
The company provides two forms of licensing for the Express Edition. The first is a monthly subscription method which allows 1 specialist to conduct a single session at a time or a lifetime subscription with similar specialist capability.