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Reconfigurable multi robot society based on Lego mindstorms

David Leal Martinez

Master's thesis accepted at Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo, Finland) in 2009.

Abstract

Reconfigurable multirobot societies is a young area of robotics that promises versatility, robustness and low cost as is relies on a society of multiple robots that will be able to perform an immeasurable amount of different tasks, tasks that not even were thought of at design time. In order to create a new reconfigurable multi robot society from scratch that could be developed fast and with low costs, it was opted to create a prototype from LEGO Mindstorms NXT equipment, complemented with some expansion electronics developed to expand the capabilities of the existing LEGO Mindstorms NXT system. This work describes the successful creation of a reconfigurable multi robot society based on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT systems, as well as the description of two prototypes that were created on the way and were not successful

Keywords: mobile robots, reconfigurable, robot society, LEGO mindstorms

Reference in IEEE format

David Leal Martinez,
"Reconfigurable multi robot society based on Lego mindstorms",
M.Sc. thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, 2009.

Detailed information

AuthorDavid Leal Martinez
Publication typeMaster's thesis
Publication languageEnglish
Title in original languageReconfigurable multi robot society based on Lego mindstorms
Electronic publicationhttp://lib.tkk.fi/Dipl/2009/urn100013.pdf
Publication year2009
SubjectAutomaatiotekniikka (Aut-84)
SupervisorAarne Halme and Kalevi Hyyppä
InstructorTomi Ylikorpi
DepartmentAutomaatio- ja systeemitekniikan laitos
Pages64
LocationT
Data entered2009-09-07 / 2009-09-30 (TKKDOC)

BibTeX

@mastersthesis{Leal2009:INSSI38500,
  author = {Leal Martinez, David},
  title = {Reconfigurable multi robot society based on Lego mindstorms},
  year = {2009},
  url = {http://lib.tkk.fi/Dipl/2009/urn100013.pdf},
  school = {Helsinki University of Technology},
  address = {Espoo, Finland}
}