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ROS Integration for Miniature Mobile Robots

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2018)

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In this paper, the feasibility of using the Robot Operating System (ROS) for controlling miniature size mobile robots was investigated. Open-source and low-cost robots employ limited processors, hence running ROS on such systems is very challenging. Therefore, we provide a compact, low-cost, and open-source module enabling miniature multi and swarm robotic systems of different sizes and types to be integrated with ROS. To investigate the feasibility of the proposed system, several experiments using a single robot and multi-robots were implemented and the results demonstrated the amenability of the system to be integrated in low-cost and open-source miniature size mobile robots.

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This work was supported by the EPSRC Projects (Project No. EP/P01366X/1 and Project No. EP/P018505/1).

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    Andrew West, Farshad Arvin, Horatio Martin, Simon Watson & Barry Lennox

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West, A., Arvin, F., Martin, H., Watson, S., Lennox, B. (2018). ROS Integration for Miniature Mobile Robots. In: Giuliani, M., Assaf, T., Giannaccini, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_29

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