Paper Info
Title
Sharing Open Hardware Through Rop, The Robotic Open Platform
Abstract
The robot open source software community, in particular ROS, drastically boosted robotics research. However, a centralized place to exchange open hardware designs does not exist. Therefore we launched the Robotic Open Platform (ROP). A place to share and discuss open hardware designs. Among others it currently contains detailed descriptions of Willow Garage's TurtleBot, the NimbRo-OP created by the University of Bonn and the AMIGO robot of Tech United Eindhoven. Eventually, ROP will contain a collection of affordable hardware components, allowing researchers to focus on cutting-edge research on a particular component instead of having to design the entire robot from scratch. As an example of how the Robotic Open Platform is able to facilitate this knowledge transfer, we introduce TURTLE-5k: A redesign of an existing soccer robot by a consortium of our university and companies in the wider Eindhoven area. Cooperating with industrial partners resulted in a significant cost reduction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_53
ROBOCUP 2013: ROBOT WORLD CUP XVII
Keywords
Field
DocType
Open Hardware, RoboCup, Low-Cost Robot Design, Robotic Open Platform, TURTLE-5k, Robotics Hardware
Open platform,Simulation,Computer science,Knowledge transfer,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Soccer robot,Computer hardware,Open source software,Cost reduction,Robotics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8371
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janno Lunenburg100.34
Robin Soetens282.01
Ferry Schoenmakers311.75
Paul Metsemakers400.34
René van de Molengraft519423.48
Maarten Steinbuch665896.53