Designing a Low-cost, Expressive Educational Robot - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Designing a Low-cost, Expressive Educational Robot

Thomas Hsiu, Steve Richards, Ajinkya Bhave, Andres Santiago Perez-Bergquist, and Illah R. Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 2404 - 2409, October, 2003

Abstract

The Trikebot is the result of a ground-up design effort chartered to develop an effective and low-cost educational robot for secondary level education and home use. This paper describes all aspects of the Trikebot, including chassis and mechanism; control electronics; communication architecture; robot control server and student programming environment. Notable innovations include a fast-build construction kit, indoor/outdoor terrainability, CMOS vision-centered sensing, back-EMF motor speed control and a Java programming interface.

BibTeX

@conference{Hsiu-2003-121332,
author = {Thomas Hsiu and Steve Richards and Ajinkya Bhave and Andres Santiago Perez-Bergquist and Illah R. Nourbakhsh},
title = {Designing a Low-cost, Expressive Educational Robot},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2003},
month = {October},
volume = {3},
pages = {2404 - 2409},
}