Pioneer 3TM User Manual

 

To test for range limits, simply pick up the robot and move it closer to the basestation 

radio modem or access point.  If the robot was out of range, the connection should 
resume.  If not, check to make sure that radio modems were not inadvertently switched 
OFF. 

Communications also will fail if the client and/or server is somehow disabled during a 
session.  For instance, if you inadvertently switch off the robot’s Main Power or press the 
RESET button, you must restart the connection.  Turning the Main Power switch OFF and 

then back ON, or pressing the RESET button puts the robot servers back to their wait state, 

ready to accept client connections again.  If the ARIA demo or other client application is 
still active, simply press esc and restart. 

To verify proper installation of the software, you might run the robot simulator, SRISim.  It 
is in the same directory as the ARIA demonstration program.  Start SRIsim first, then the 

ARIA demo program.  ARIA should successfully connect with the simulator if the software 

has been installed correctly.  

SRIsim looks like a real robot to the ARIA client, so you can operate the demo as you do 

your own ActivMedia robot.  SRIsim includes simulated worlds and different robot profiles 
which you select from the Files menu, too, so you can see how different robots might 

navigate in a real or imagined space.  

 

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