SURPASSING THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NXT LEGO ROBOT WITH DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

guedes, rf (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FEUP; sousa, a (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - Actas da 4ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação

Pages: 633-638

CISTI 2009 - 4ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação

Póvoa de Varzim, 17 a 20 de Junho de 2009

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FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-003-S78

Abstract (EN): The goal of this paper is to discuss the usage of distributed architecture for the Lego NXT robots. This platform is very interesting because it provides standard hardware for configurable mounting of several sensors and actuators. The presented work characterizes sensors and actuators and identifies limitations of the stand-alone architecture. In order to maximize usefulness and go beyond the identified limitations, a distributed computing architecture was developed that allows the Lego NXT to address complex missions. The distributed architecture makes use of two different programming environments. The described architecture was tested in a sample self localization task.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6