• DocumentCode
    2945682
  • Title

    A Distributed Multirobot System Based on Edutainment Robots

  • Author

    Fernandez, Josep ; Lopez, Pedro ; Oliva, Joan

  • Author_Institution
    Dpt. Computer Engineering and Automatic Control Technical University of Catalonia c/Pau Gargallo, 5 08028 Barcelona, Spain; josep. fernandez@upc.edu
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    18-22 April 2005
  • Firstpage
    4271
  • Lastpage
    4276
  • Abstract
    Reliability, simplicity and low cost are three properties that are difficult to combine in Robotics. Therefore, this combination has a great interest for education institutions. Our work is addressed to develop multirobot system using low cost platform. Simple LEGO© robots are enhanced by adding them expansion modules, in order to break its main limitations, and integrating it in an off-board programming system. A distributed architecture structured in four processing levels is implemented in order to allow users to manage, control and program a multirobot system through Internet.
  • Keywords
    Edutainment robots; Multirobot systems; Robotics Education; Costs; Educational programs; Educational robots; Mobile robots; Multirobot systems; Optical fiber communication; Optical sensors; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Edutainment robots; Multirobot systems; Robotics Education;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8914-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570856
  • Filename
    1570856