Name
Abstract | ||
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Most commercially-available robots are either aimed at the research community, or are designed with a single purpose in mind. The extensive hobbyist community has tended to focus on the hardware and the low-level software aspects. We claim that there is a need for a low-cost, general-purpose robot, accessible to the hobbyist community, with sufficient computation and sensing to run “research-grade” software. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of such a robot. We explicitly outline our design goals, and show how a capable robot can be assembled from off-the-shelf parts, for a modest cost, by a single person with only a few tools. We also show how the robot can be used as a low-cost telepresence platform, giving the system a concrete purpose beyond being a low-cost development platform. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980230 | Robotics and Automation |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
robot programming,telerobotics,commercially-available robot,extensive hobbyist community,general-purpose robot,inexpensive robot platform,low level software aspect,low-cost development platform,low-cost telepresence platform,off-the-shelf part,teleoperation | Robot learning,Robot control,Social robot,Personal robot,Control engineering,Human–computer interaction,Mobile robot navigation,Engineering,Robot,Mobile robot,Ubiquitous robot,Embedded system | Conference |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
2011 | 1 | 1050-4729 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-61284-386-5 | 9 | 1.00 |
References | Authors | |
5 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel A. Lazewatsky | 1 | 53 | 4.31 |
| William D. Smart | 2 | 98 | 11.57 |