Designing a low-cost, expressive educational robot

Author

Hsiu, Thomas ; Richards, Steve ; Bhave, Ajinkya ; Perez-Bergquist, Andres ; Nourbakhsh, Illah

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

27-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2404

Abstract

The Trikebot is the result of a ground-up design effort chartered to develop an effective and low-cost educational robot for secondary level education and home use. This paper describes all aspects of the Trikebot, including chassis and mechanism; control electronics; communication architecture; robot control server and student programming environment. Notable innovations include a fast-build construction kit, indoor/outdoor terrainability, CMOS vision-centered sensing, back-EMF motor speed control and a Java programming interface.

Keywords

Java; control engineering education; educational aids; educational courses; mobile robots; robot programming; robot vision; student experiments; velocity control; CMOS vision centered sensing; Java programming interface; Trikebot; back EMF motor speed control; communication architecture; control electronics; educational robot; fast build construction kit; ground up design; home use robot; indoor/outdoor terrainability; secondary level education; student programming; Communication system control; Educational programs; Educational robots; Java; Programming environments; Programming profession; Robot control; Robot programming; Technological innovation; Velocity control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003. (IROS 2003). Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7860-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2003.1249230

Filename

1249230