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BeBot: A Modular Mobile Miniature Robot Platform Supporting Hardware Reconfiguration and Multi-standard Communication

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Progress in Robotics (FIRA 2009)

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Mobile robots become more and more important in current research and education. Especially small ’on the table’ experiments attract interest, because they need no additional or special laboratory equipments. In this context platforms are desirable which are small, simple to access and relatively easy to program. An additional powerful information processing unit is advantageous to simplify the implementation of algorithm and the porting of software from desktop computers to the robot platform. In this paper we present a new versatile miniature robot that can be ideally used for research and education. The small size of the robot of about 9 cm edge length, its robust drive and its modular structure make the robot a general device for single and multi-robot experiments executed ’on the table’. For programming and evaluation the robot can be wirelessly connected via Bluetooth or WiFi. The operating system of the robot is based on the standard Linux kernel and the GNU C standard library. A player/stage model eases software development and testing.

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  1. System and Circuit Technology, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Stefan Herbrechtsmeier & Ulrich Rückert

  2. Electronics and Circuit Technology, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Soest, Germany

    Ulf Witkowski

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat , Abdullah Al Manum  & Ryohei Nakatsu ,  & 

  4. Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Jesse

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, P.O. Box, 117576, Singapore

    Sadasivan Puthusserypady K

  6. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, System and Circuit Technology, University of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulrich Rückert

  7. School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box, Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

  8. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulf Witkowski

  9. The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

    Thomas Braunl

  10. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, P.O. Box, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Jacky Baltes  & John Anderson  & 

  11. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Chang Wong

  12. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Education in Technology & Science, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Igor Verner

  13. Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA

    David Ahlgren

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Herbrechtsmeier, S., Witkowski, U., Rückert, U. (2009). BeBot: A Modular Mobile Miniature Robot Platform Supporting Hardware Reconfiguration and Multi-standard Communication. In: Kim, JH., et al. Progress in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_40

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