Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research

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

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    Abstract

    Mobile robots are playing a significant role in Higher Education science and engineering teaching, as they offer a flexible platform to explore and teach a wide-range of topics such as mechanics, electronics and software. Unfortunately the widespread adoption is limited by their high cost and the complexity of user interfaces and programming tools. To overcome these issues, a new affordable, adaptable and easy-to-use robotic platform is proposed. Mona is a low-cost, open-source and open-hardware mobile robot, which has been developed to be compatible with a number of standard programming environments. The robot has been successfully used for both education and research at The University of Manchester, UK.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalJournal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
    Early online date23 May 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Keywords

    • Mobile robot
    • Robotics for education
    • Open-hardware
    • Open-source

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