Reconfigurable multi robot society based on Lego mindstorms
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Master's thesis
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2009
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Automaatiotekniikka
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Aut-84
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en
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64
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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.Description
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Halme, AarneHyyppä, Kalevi
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Ylikorpi, TomiKeywords
mobile robots, reconfigurable, robot society, LEGO mindstorms