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

doi:10.1007%2Fs10846-018-0866-9

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 language	English
Journal	Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Early online date	23 May 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10846-018-0866-9
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Mobile robot
Robotics for education
Open-hardware
Open-source

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