“ACINONYX”THE ARTIFICIAL MAGICIAN

BOT-THE ROBOT FOR “MAGICAL MOVIE” PRODUCTIONS

MJSC PASIR TUMBOH

DESA DARUL NAIM,

16150 KOTA BHARU,

KELANTAN,MALAYSIA.

BY:

AHMAD SHAZRUL BIN MUHD APANDI(990803-12-5743)

SYED BALIAN BIN SYED MAHMUD SHAH KAMAL (991227-03-5997)

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OUR PRINCIPALEn. Abdul Aziz Bin Baba

OUR ADVISORPuan Rashidah Fathiah Binti Abdul Samat

OUR MOTTO“Developing Leaders Beyond Excellence”

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1.2 CREATIVTY CATEGORY (OPEN)

-Robot: “ACINONYX” The Artificial Magician Bot for magical movies production

-Magical Tricks Managements: An insight towards the production of better and easier way for magic related scenes to be done.

ACINONYX

ARTIFICIAL MAGICIAN BOT

AHMAD SHAZRUL BIN MUHD APANDI

(990803-12-5743)

SYED BALIAN BIN SYED MAHMUD SHAH KAMAL

(991227-03-5997)

This report is submitted in partial fulfilment of requirement for the Creative Category, MRSM Robofair 2015

MRSM PASIR TUMBOH

PASIR TUMBOH, KELANTAN

MALAYSIA

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I hereby declare that I have read this report and in my opinion this project is sufficient in terms of scope and quality

for the MRSM Robofair 2015

CREATIVITY CATEGORY (OPEN)

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ENCIK ABDUL AZIZ BIN BABA

PENGETUA

Maktab Rendah Sains MARA

Pasir Tumboh

Pasir Tumbuh, Kelantan

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DEDICATION

Specially dedicated

To our parents, families, brothers and sisters, teachers and friends who had given us the guidance, inspiration

and support in our journey of learning

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.....

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our gratitude to Allah S.W.T for giving us the strength, knowledge and opportunity to complete this project entitled ROBOT: “ACINONYX” The Artificial Magician Bot. This report is prepared to fulfil part of the requirement in completing CREATIVITY CATEGORY (OPEN) – MRSM ROBOFAIR 2015.

Our heartily gratitude and appreciation to our beloved principal, Encik Abdul Aziz Bin Baba who has been our mentor, guiding us through with enthusiasm and encouragement. His continuous advice and constructive comments during this project were much appreciated.

Our special honour and appreciation to our teacher, Puan Rashidah Bin Abdul Samat who has become the supervisor, guiding us with motivation, advices and ideas.

Our appreciation also goes to our beloved family, teacher, and friends for their encouragement, love, patience and support to us all these years.

Nevertheless, our appreciation is also dedicated to all who shared their opinions, knowledge, assistance, and experience directly or indirectly towards the accomplishment of this project.

Thank you.

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ABSTRACT For the last century, the production of movies that involves in magic is pretty well-known and mostly craved by people around the world. The magic tricks done are not easy to do and needs a lot of work to be perfected. So, our robot ACINONYX will help to ease the burden and do the tricks for the production instead of the extra work that is put on the line. The filming will become more efficient because of this technology which is by using NXT 1.0 robot and it is based on touch sensor and ultrasonic sensor. This technology is attached to the things that are intended for “magic” to be casted upon and will respond to the human specific action.

One of the magic tricks is closing a door by itself. The door had servo motors and a brain installed triggered by an ultrasonic sensor. The human will only need to put their hand closer towards the sensor in a specific range so that the door closes by itself. Secondly, the magic tricks to open up things like opening drawers. The drawers also have motors and a brain attached triggered by 3 touch sensor. The different touch sensor that is touched will open different drawers. The human will have to touch the sensor one touch at a time to open each drawer so that everything works accordingly as planned.

The materials is gathered and measured properly when the building process starts. The Artificial Magician Bot is built based on pure self made instructions. Thus, the production of amazing magical movies can be created by using “ACINONYX” with effortless ease creating a better future for the filming industries.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER PAGES

TITLE

1.1 About our college i

1.2 About our project ii

1.3 Confirmation iii

1.4 Dedication iv

1.5 Acknowledgement v

1.6 Abstract vi

INTRODUCTION

2.1 Introduction on the project 1

2.2 Problem Statement 2

2.3 Literature Review 3

OBJECTIVES & THEIR EXPLANATION

3.1 List Of Objectives And Explanations 4

DESIGN RATIONALE, DEVELOPMENT & TESTING

4.1 Design Work Rationale 5

4.2 Overview of System Model 6

4.3 Appropriate Block Diagrams and Parameters 8

4.4 Development And Testing Work 9

DISCUSSION OF RESULT

5.1 Discussion Of All Plots And Tables 10

5.2 Discussion On Whether Objective Is Fulfilled Or Not 11

CONCLUSION, LESSONS LEARNED AND SUGGESTIONS

6.1 Brief Discussion On The Overall Project Development 12

6.2 Lessons learned 13

6.3 Suggestions and future development 14

APPENDIX 15

2.1

INTRODUCTION ON THE PROJECT

As we all know, we are now currently living in a world where entertainment in the filming industries has become a thing that humans cannot live without. It has become compulsory for humans to get the entertainment that they desire and follow the flow of the technology that’s been growing rapidly .The most common movies that has never stop winning the peoples heart is the production of “magical movies” which is related to jaw-dropping magic scenes that it contains.

However, the movie is not easily done and requires huge costs to get it done. The crews would have to edit their recordings and use hidden background crew to do the magic tricks for each scenes like moving a table or floating furniture in mid-air “magically”. Not to mention, the time to complete the movie also took a lot of time and needs to be finished in time before any unexpected inconvenience.

The project, “ACINONYX” that we are working on could give a giant helping hand for the filming industries specifically for magic related movies. It will do the magic actions for the humans so that their effort to make magical movies more realistic and easier to do such as moving doors or opening drawers magically .The magician bot will be formed by using the NXT 1.0 robot and its sensors.

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2.2PROBLEM STATEMENT:-

People that successfully created a perfect movie relating with magic trick often needs to edit the film many times and used extra handwork. This will result in some burdens and extra cost just to hide the flaws. The world that we live in today requires “magical movies” need to be produced in a faster and more precise handwork used so that the filming industries would continue to satisfy our ever-growing desire for entertainment. The more the cost given out just to make the movie, the lesser benefit that we will get.

Despite this fact, the movie crew still continues to undergo the unnecessary hardships just to get their movies done. This is because there is still no technology that could help solve the problem for this kind of situation. Technology is supposed to make our lives much easier and we should use it to our advantage.

Because of that, we decided to take action to create the robot that would help do the magic tricks for each scene and solve the problem that has been running through the minds of producers in the filming industries.

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2.3LITERATURE REVIEW:-

Statistically, movie crews that produces magical movies is quite burdened when completing their work. They only have movie editing applications and hidden crews to do the actions from the “magic tricks” casted .For example, moving furniture or opening things like drawers. Producers around the world cannot waste much time on burdening things if they want to continue to rise up in the film industry as there is a lot of competition happening between every company that is specialised in the production of “magical movies”.

The crew needs the technology to help do the magic tricks for them and help increase the rate of the production of the movies. By using the artificial magician bot, ACINONYX, most of those tasks can easily be done through the help of sensors that will trigger the things that is intended for magic stuff to happen. Our work will become easier and we could achieve more than we could ever conceive before.

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3.1LIST OF OBJECTIVES/TASKS

1) HELP OPEN THINGS USING THE TECHNOLOGY AROUND US(ACINONYX)

-This is really important for the production crew to magically open things for their movie scenes with much more realistic way rather than using human’s handwork such as hidden background crew that needs to wait and do the given task which is problematic. They also have a lot of work to do other than the “magic related” scenes.

2) CREATE A BETTER MOVIE WITH LESS EFFORT

-Movie production that involves magic tricks is hard to make because there is a lot of work that needs to be done so that the movie can be completed. ACINONYX will help do the tricks for them and decrease the amount of work needed compared to the usual extra work in the previous days.

3) MAKE THE MAGIC REALISTIC AND SYSTEMATICALLY

-The artificial magician bot needs to be less visible and more anonymous so that the magic would seem to be realistic and well-planned. Suitable camouflage will be used to achieve this objective because it does not make the crew to do much editing and hidden background crews due to the help of the robot. The robot will become inconspicuous and everything will look seamless creating a mind-blowing movie with the help of an artificial magician bot.

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DESIGN WORK & RATIONALE

The idea of this project was originally extracted from a cartoon show, “Sabrina the witch” in the 90’s where she handles things using her magic powers. She could easily open and close doors by using any gestures that she prefers and the door would close magically. Other than that, she could also fetch her accessories from her drawing by using the same method which is by using her magic. So, the design popped out in our minds and we decided to relate the problems that our filming industries have and eventually we got the idea to make an artificial magician bot. The robot will do the magic while we do the gestures making a really realistic magical thing going for the filming industries as the production of the magic related scenes requires extra work. All the usual efforts needed are lessened and we proceed on our work easily.

We used mounting boards to cover up the drawer into a custom-made one that could hold up the servo motors in place. The drawer will open automatically upon the detection of touch by touch sensors and different drawer will open in turns based on the programs installed. The magic will look real once we used some gesture that would magically open the drawer as we touch the sensor at the designated drawer. The door of the box is closed by a string that is tied to a metal bar attached to the door by the rotation of the servo motor that would pull the string. The ultrasonic sensor is attached to the door and it will trigger the motors once it detects our hand in a specific range.

Those contraptions are built based on the sketches that we made followed by some opinions that our friends provided. The outcome should result in a successful one that could contribute to the society for a greater future.

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OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM MODEL

-The programming system of NXT 1.0 is used to achieve our objectives .The system is used because it plays a big role in giving this artificial magician bot a fully functioning personality. The sensor used is touch sensor, ultrasonic sensor and servo motors. These sensors have their own specific reaction towards certain action that carries out their functions so that the sensor is easily distinguishable and works systematically in the filming industries.

THESE ARE THE OTHER MATERIALS USED:

-A DRAWER

-DUCT TAPE

-A BOX

-A STAFF

-COLOURED PAPERS

-BISCUITS, MEDICINE, AND ETC (FOR THE DRAWER)

-STRINGS

-MOUNTING BOARDS

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THE FOLLOWING SENSORS IS USED TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT:

SENSORS FUNCTIONS

Touch sensor The Touch Sensor gives your robot a sense of

touch. The Touch Sensor detects when it is being

pressed by something and when it is released

again.

Suggestions: You can use the Touch Sensor to make

your robot pick up things: a robotic arm equipped

with a Touch Sensor lets the robot know whether or

not there is something in its arm to grab. Or you

can use a Touch Sensor to make your robot act on a

command. For example, by pressing the Touch

Sensor you can make your robot walk, talk, close a

door, or turn on your TV.

Rotation sensor/servo motor Each motor has a built-in Rotation Sensor. This lets your control your robot’s movements precisely. The Rotation Sensor measures motor rotations in degrees or full rotations [accuracy of +/- one degree]. One rotation is equal to 360 degrees, so if you set a motor to turn 180 degrees, its output shaft will make half a turn.

Ultrasonic sensor The Ultrasonic Sensor is one of the two sensors that give your robot vision [The Light Sensor is the other]. The Ultrasonic Sensor enables your robot to see and detect objects. You can also use it to make your robot avoid obstacles, sense and measure distance, and detect movement.

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4.3

APPROPRIATE BLOCK DIAGRAMS AND PARAMETERS

-ACINONYX DRAWER PROGRAMME

-ACINONYX DOOR PROGRAMME

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DEVELOPMENT & TESTING WORK

-At first, we received the NXT 1.0 robot kit. After doing several discussions, it is concluded that we got the idea of how to make the model of the artificial magician bot. We decided to build it is based on our pure and new ideas that we had come up with and followed the instruction through the sketches that we made.

The next step, we prepared the materials needed and gathered them in our workplace. The drawer is installed with a brain and 3 motors so that it can open 3 different drawers triggered by 3 touch sensor while a box is built that represents a room with a door that has the same concept as the drawer which is a brain attached and a motor triggered by an ultrasonic sensor so it can open the door magically. Every inch of the materials for the building process is measured so that we can make our work easier and neatly.

After our project is complete, several tests are conducted to make sure that the robot would actually work and carry out its function properly.

Finally, we would perfect the robot by adding a little modification thought out at the last process which is making it inconspicuous before our work is actually done.

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5.1

DISCUSSION OF ALL PLOTS AND TABLES IN THE REPORT

-The problem statement was, it is hard to perform magic tricks for movie scenes and it really is burdening the crews just to complete the “magical” movies. Our robot does some of the useful magic trick for them such as closing the doors magically by using the servo motors that has strings attached to pull the door closer to the door’s frame after the ultrasonic sensor used detects the humans hand within a certain range. The hand is detected after the person does some gesture to amaze people that is watching and causes the door to magically close by itself. Other than that, it also can open drawers by using the same principle as the magic door which is using servo motors having a long object that is pushed from the back of the drawer but triggered by 3 touch sensor. The drawer will be triggered by using a magic staff pointed towards it that should open 3 different drawers.

The ultrasonic sensor uses the same scientific principle as bats: it measures distance by calculating the time it takes for a sound wave to hit an object and return – just like an echo.

The Touch Sensor gives your robot a sense of touch. The Touch Sensor detects when it is being pressed by something and when it is released again.Suggestions: You can use the Touch Sensor to make your robot pick up things: a robotic arm equipped with a Touch Sensor lets the robot know whether or not there is something in its arm to grab. Or you can use a Touch Sensor to make your robot act on a command. For example, by pressing the Touch Sensor you can make your robot walk, talk, close a door, or turn on your TV.

Finally, after the programming is done, the physical look of the model is then perfected with some repairing of any flaw and the project is ready to be used. It would take about 4 days to complete it.

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5.2

DISCUSSION ON WHETHER OBJECTIVE IS FULFILLED OR NOT

After we completed our project, we put on several test to determine whether it gives out the result that we expected in our list of objectives. In the beginning, we decided to see if the door and the drawer would function efficiently. It turns out, the door closes as it detects our hand accordingly while the drawer opened as we touched the touch sensors at the designated drawer. This is a big “thumbs up” as we now know that there is no error in the process of using it for now. So, the first objective is fulfilled which is opening things with the help of the technology (Acinonyx) around us.

Secondly, we tried to use it to make a random video just for fun using the artificial magician bot. As expected, we do not require much effort as the magic tricks done is already in the hands of “Acinonyx”. We can see that if we use it in a real movie production, the magic related scenes uses less effort than the usual effort needed without the help of “Acinonyx”. This proves that the second objective is fulfilled which is creating “magical movies” with less effort.

Last but not least, we put on some disguise for the robots temporarily just to make sure that we could make the robot inconspicuous. We also added some special ornaments and accessories to the robot so that everything looks nice and neat. We needed to make the robot hard to notice so that we can make a realistic photo-shoot when it comes to making the magic related scenes. More realistic camouflage should come in the future making this technology seamless and cryptic. Nevertheless, the third objective is fulfilled which is making the magic realistic and systematically.

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6.1

BRIEF DISCUSSION ON THE OVERALL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

We will tell more details about the development of the project. Firstly, we need to put a lot of effort and give it our all to complete our project. Everything needs to be precise and well managed. So, we decided to use a custom designed box that represents a room with a door. The main focus for this part is the door specifically having the artificial magician bot being installed in it with a brain. It needs some “engineering involved” so that the door becomes fully functional and “magical”. We also need to programme every brain so that it gives out the result that we expected.

Then, a small drawer is also used to complete ACINONYX’S special show for us humans. We will create a custom made stage for the drawer with only one brain for it and connect the brain with the servo motors attached to the drawer. It uses 3 touch sensors that detect 3 different touches for opening 3 different drawers. After everything is well built and everything is falling into the right order, our robot should be done and ready to use for great purpose in the filming industry as well as our daily lives.

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BRIEF DISCUSSION ON LESSONS LEARNED

Based on this project, we can gain a lot of experience and useful lessons. For example, it is discovered that technology could ease our burden and make our work easier. As a result, it helped us in various aspects such as the amount of human’s handwork energy usage in movie productions is lessened. Moreover, we can also learn that movie production must follow the flow of the stages of technology. If not, human’s movie production in our current time will be unremarkable.

Other than that, we can learn to manage our time effectively by separating the time for our studies and the time for this robotics project. This in return, should make us more reliable when given multiple tasks at once as the skills necessary is already available within us. Our lives should become better as we already have the skill that most people have yet to obtain in their current time.

Lastly, we can increase our specialty in building up a good teamwork. This project requires a team of two persons that must synchronize and learn to work together among themselves in order to acquire the results that they desire. This is pretty important in life because it is needed to increase our chance of survival in our modern world.

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LIST OF SUGGESTION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

-Our project is looked upon as a new technology that is not yet recognized but is proven to be useful for magic related movies productions. It has the right functions for the “magical” movies production that simplifies our energy requirement. Thus, we suggest that this technology would widely be used for our everyday life as it can also be used outside the filming industries to help people in certain ways creating an era that is more systematic. For example, the sensor is used to detect cat burglars by switching on all the lights and capture the pictures during that situation once the door at that place is not closed within a certain time like 10 seconds starting after the door is opened. So, our technology could contribute to the society for our everyday life including the magic related movie productions. Moreover, it could also help us in emergency situation. For example, if we arrived at home and opened the door to find out that there was fire everywhere around the house, the door that was left open for a given time without the closed again will snap the pictures of the situation and send the pictures to the emergency rescue hotline.

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APPENDIX

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STAGE CHART

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FLOW CHART

Idea and concept

Literature Review

Mechanical design and construction

Software programming

Software and hardware integration

Implementation

Testing and fine tuning

Documentation

Start

Yes

No

Yes

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Touch Sensor

Literature review focus on design and existing products in the market

Mechanical design

Programming begins

Test and stimulation on the robot

Robot constructions process

Does it work properly or not?

End

Troubleshooting

Re-evaluate the design

Ready for documentation

The Touch Sensor gives your robot a sense of touch. The Touch

Sensor detects when it is being pressed by something and when it is released again.

Suggestions: You can use the Touch Sensor to make your robot pick up things: a robotic

arm equipped with a Touch Sensor lets the robot know whether or not there is something

in its arm to grab. Or you can use a Touch Sensor to make your robot act on a command.

For example, by pressing the Touch Sensor you can make your robot walk, talk, close a

door, or turn on your TV.

Ultrasonic Sensor

The Ultrasonic Sensor is one of the two sensors that give your

robot vision [The Light Sensor is the other]. The Ultrasonic Sensor enables your robot to

see and detect objects. You can also use it to make your robot avoid obstacles, sense

and measure distance, and detect movement.

The Ultrasonic Sensor measures distance in centimeters and in inches. It is able to

measure distances from 0 to 255 centimeters with a precision of +/- 3 cm.

The Ultrasonic Sensor uses the same scientific principle as bats: it measures distance by

calculating the time it takes for a sound wave to hit an object and return – just like an

echo.

Large sized objects with hard surfaces return the best readings. Objects made of soft

fabric or that are curved [like a ball] or are very thin or small can be difficult for the

sensor to detect.

* Note that two or more Ultrasonic Sensors operating in the same room may interrupt

each other’s readings.

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