A Mobile Robot For Laboratory Purposes And Its Applications

摘要

The paper presents the ELECTRON R1 mobile robot and its application to the research of navigation and control of such devices. The robot was designed in cooperation between the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics and the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering Warsaw University of Technology. It consists of a six-wheeled mobile platform with all of the wheels powered and a controller based on a single-board PC type microcomputer. Due to the modular structure the robot can be equipped with diverse sensor modules, thanks to which it can be comprehensively used for research purposes.