Mona: an Affordable Mobile Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications

Farshad Arvin; Jose Luis Espinosa Mendoza; Benjamin Bird; Andrew West; Simon Watson; Barry Lennox

Mona: an Affordable Mobile Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications

Farshad Arvin
, Jose Luis Espinosa Mendoza
, Benjamin Bird
, Andrew West
, Simon Watson
, Barry Lennox

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Mobile robots are playing a significant role in multi and swarm robotic research
studies. The high cost of commercial mobile robots is a significant challenge
that limits the number of swarm based research studies that implement real
robotic platforms. On the other hand, the observed results from simulated
robots using simulation software are not representative of results that would be
obtained using real robots. There are therefore considerable benefits in the
development of an affordable open-source and flexible platform that allows
students and researchers to implement experiments using real robot systems.
Mona is an open-source and open-hardware mobile robot that has been
developed at the University of Manchester for this purpose. Mona provides a
robotic solution that can be programmed and operated using a user-friendly
interface, Arduino, with relative ease. The low cost of the platform means that
it is feasible for a large number of these robots to be used in swarm robotic
scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UK-RAS Conference on ‘Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Pages	49-52
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Swarm Robotics
Mobile robot

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Exploration in Extreme Environments with Swarm Robotic System
Huang, X., Arvin, F., West, C., Watson, S. & Lennox, B., 24 Jan 2019. 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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Mona: an Affordable Mobile Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications

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Exploration in Extreme Environments with Swarm Robotic System

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