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
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