RCUBE: a multipurpose platform for intelligent autonomous system

Author

Boersch, I. ; Heinsohn, J. ; Loose, H. ; Mrkor, K.U.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Media, Univ. of Appl. Sci. Brandenburg, Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

3-5 June 2004

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

187

Abstract

Since 1995 autonomous, intelligent or mobile robot systems have been investigated and included in the education process. Using commercial and/or open source platforms like LEGO-techniques with the 6.270-Board (Flynn, A.M. and Jones, J.L., 1996), the EyeBot controller (Braunl, Th., 2002) or the PIONEER robots various aspects like mobility, controllability, sensor fusion, line or object recognition, navigation and control strategies were taken into account. The limited abilities of all these systems in computing power or image processing required the development of a new hardware platform called RCUBE (Boersch, I., et al., 2003) combining the features of a typical actuator-sensor-input-output-board with computing power and image recognition capabilities. The system would be suitable as a compact platform for universities, small enterprises and private developers.

Keywords

control engineering computing; image recognition; intelligent robots; mobile robots; EyeBot controller; LEGO technique; PIONEER robot; RCUBE; image recognition; intelligent autonomous system; mobile robot system; multipurpose platform; Controllability; Image processing; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent systems; Mobile robots; Navigation; Object recognition; Robot sensing systems; Sensor fusion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics, 2004. ICM '04. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8599-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMECH.2004.1364434

Filename

1364434