Final presentation of Aquilo Spring 2013 CS491 Human Augmentics University of Illinois at Chicago

1. Aquilo
Claudio Caletti - Luca Cioria
Gabriele Petronella - Giacomo Tagliabue
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2. What’s that?
‣ Originally, just a north-sensing “hat”
‣ Final version: a direction-sensing helmet
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real time direction feedback through vibration
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head mounted device
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3. How does it look like?
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4. What does it do?
‣ Three supported modes
‣ North-sensing mode
‣ Follow mode
‣ Massage!
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5. Demo
1. Willis Tower NE
2. Santiago (Chile) SSE
3. Los Angeles SW
4. Vancouver WNW
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6. Use cases
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7. Fast and responsive
Helmet-based
Clear vibration feedback
Design choices
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13. Video
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14. What we learned
✓ Inadequate horse power in Arduino Uno
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extremely hard to manage 2 software serial connections while
controlling vibrators and computing angles..
✓ Magnetometers are funny beasts
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the one in the ArduIMU was probably defective, the external
standalone one was not precise enough to be of any use
✓ 360 degrees don’t fit in a byte
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bugs can hide everywhere on an 8bit microprocessor
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15. Future development
magnetometer yaw
drift correction
better vibration
patterns
multiple simultaneous
feedbacks
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16. Thank you
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