The XBC: A modern low-cost mobile robot controller

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3896-3900

  LeGrand, Richard ^a   Machulis, Kyle ^b   Miller, David P ^b,d   Sargent, Randy ^c   Wright, Anne ^c  

^a Charmed Labs   (United States)

^b KISS Institute for Practical Robotics   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Back emf; Color tracking; Robot controller; Robot programming environment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONTROLLERS; COSTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

BACK-EMF; COLOR TRACKING; CUSTOM-BUILT ELECTRONICS; MOBILE ROBOT CONTROLLER; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS; VISION PROCESSING;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79958019155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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