VolksBot – A Flexible Component-Based Mobile Robot System

Wisspeintner, Thomas; Nowak, W.; Bredenfeld, Ansgar

doi:10.1007/11780519_73

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“…The outcome of the first test rides is publicly available as videos on [28] and [4]. As you can see there the Android simulator was running on a conventional notebook (Intel Mobile 1.73 GHz, 1 GB RAM) and used the IEEE 802.11 b/g (WiFi) standard to setup a communication channel 3 . A three-wheeled robot (VolksBot RT3) was used during the testing period with same VolksBot Motor Controller (VMC) as on the RT3.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles

Surmann

Holz²,

Blumental³

et al. 2008

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-This paper introduces our robotic system named UGAV (Unmanned Ground-Air Vehicle) consisting of two semi-autonomous robot platforms, an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The paper focuses on three topics of the inspection with the combined UGV and UAV: (A) teleoperated control by means of cell or smart phones with a new concept of automatic configuration of the smart phone based on a RKI-XML description of the vehicles control capabilities, (B) the camera and vision system with the focus to real time feature extraction e.g. for the tracking of the UAV and (C) the architecture and hardware of the UAV.

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Section: First Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The UGV is based on a modular mobile platform called VolksBot [3], which has been designed specifically for rapid prototyping and applications in education, research and industry. The VolksBot system is developed, manufactured and sold by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS).…”

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Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles

Surmann

Holz²,

Blumental³

et al. 2008

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…Its built on the VolksBot [94,95] under-carriage and is equipped with a Katana manipulator. Its built on the VolksBot [94,95] under-carriage and is equipped with a Katana manipulator.…”

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A Hybrid Deliberative Layer for Robotic Agents

Hartanto

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Cognitive robots are all over the place. Well, at least that is what it looks like in research lab agendas on the planet.Some basic and fundamental problems in controlling mobile robots have been quite well understood in recent years: Localization and map building are chief examples. Now, as autonomous mobility as such is much less of a challenge, research resumes an activity that has started about half a century ago in mainstream AI; that got out of the AI mainstream for a while, as other challenges turned out to offer solutions faster; that got a little mocked for some time ("good old-fashioned AI", gofai); yet that has remained a fascinating scientific problem, and potentially a rich source of application projects: algorithmic models for goal-directed physical action in the world.So in a sense, very recent and ambitious projects in cognitive robotics, or cognitive technical systems, or robot cognition, or whatever you prefer to call them, are taking up that thread, which, I would say, goes back to the pioneering shakey project in the AI of the 1960s, and has remained unresolved ever since. However, there are a number of interesting differences between thinking about a cognitive robot in the 1960s and doing so today: Our modern computers are nearly infinitely more powerful; sensors are much better; decent robot hardware has become affordable even for a normal university lab; and, the proper share of AI: 50 years of AI research has yielded quite a number of wellunderstood algorithms and formalisms for planning, knowledge representation and reasoning that were unknown in the early days.And still, getting a cognitive robot to work is a challenge -which is why cognitive robots are not yet all over the place, and the cognition in those that are may fail to impress. Among a zoo of problems from "just" technical (integration!) to big AI problem (symbol grounding!) is a specimen that has to do with the proper AI share of the story: Using a planner or reasoner within the control software of an autonomous cognitive robot is different from using them in an off-line or human-in-the-loop system. Now this is the point where Ronny Hartanto's thesis comes into play. A robot working, for example, in a mundane household domain, would need to May 2011Joachim Hertzberg PrefaceAction planning has been used in the field of robotics for solving long-running tasks. In the robot architectures field, it is also known as the deliberative layer. However, there is still a gap between the symbolic representation on the one hand and the low-level control and sensor representation on the other. In addition, the definition of a planning problem for a complex, real-world robot is not trivial. The planning process could become intractable as its search spaces become large. Since the defined planning problem determines the complexity and the computability for solving the problem, it should contain only relevant states. In this work, a novel approach which amalgamates description logic (dl) reasoning with hierarchical task network (htn) planning i...

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“…With background in robot control architectures, embedded systems, vision processing and mechatronics and participating in RoboCup [7] Middle Size League we started the VolksBot project [13] in September 2002. The goal of the project is to create an effective mobile robot construction-kit which can serve as solid basis for advanced research experiments as well as for education and domain-specific rapid prototyping.…”

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The VolksBot Concept – Rapid Prototyping for real-life Applications in Mobile Robotics (Das VolksBot Konzept – Ein Baukastensystem für anwendungsnahes Rapid-Prototyping mobiler Roboter)

Wisspeintner¹,

Bose²

2005

It - Information Technology

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VolksBot is a modular mobile robot construction kit, developed during the last 3 years to fit the needs in research and education as well as in application-based rapid prototyping. The component-based approach offers a plugin architecture with open interfaces in electronic hardware, software and mechanics. The lean and open structure fosters reusability of existing modules, both in hardware and software. Initially this concept was successfully applied to indoor applications. The article addresses this concept and shows how it was extended to fit the higher demands of reallife scenarios like outdoor or rough terrain. As a result, the VolksBot RT (Rough Terrain) construction kit is presented. Examples are given, how domain-specific rapid prototyping of variants of such platforms could be achieved in the fields of Urban Search and Rescue and Autonomous Transportation.Zusammenfassung VolksBot ist ein modularer Baukasten für mobile Roboter, welcher während der vergangenen drei Jahre speziell für den Einsatz in Forschung, Ausbildung und die schnelle Realisierung anwendungsnaher Prototypen entwickelt wurde. Der komponentenbasierte Ansatz bietet eine Plug-In-Architektur mit offenen Schnittstellen in Elektronik, Software und Mechanik. Die schlanke und offene Struktur fördert die Wiederverwendbarkeit bestehender Komponenten sowohl in Hardware als auch in Software. Zunächst wurde das Konzept für Indoor-Anwendungen eingesetzt. Der Artikel beschreibt das Konzept und zeigt wie es erweitert wurde, um den höheren Ansprüchen realitätsnaher Szenarien wie ,,Außeneinsatz" oder ,,schwieriges Gelände" gerecht zu werden. Als Ergebnis wird der VolksBot RT (Rough Terrain) Baukasten vorgestellt. Anhand von Beispielen wird gezeigt, wie in sehr kurzer Zeit unterschiedliche Robotervarianten für die Einsatzbereiche ,,Rettungsrobotik" und ,,Autonomer Personentransport" auf Basis dieses Baukastenkonzeptes entstanden.

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VolksBot – A Flexible Component-Based Mobile Robot System

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles

Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles

A Hybrid Deliberative Layer for Robotic Agents

The VolksBot Concept – Rapid Prototyping for real-life Applications in Mobile Robotics (Das VolksBot Konzept – Ein Baukastensystem für anwendungsnahes Rapid-Prototyping mobiler Roboter)

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