Extensible Hardware Architecture for Mobile Robots

— The Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center has developed a new mobile robot hardware architecture designed for extensibility and reconfigurability. Currently implemented on the K9 rover, and soon to be integrated onto the K10 series of human-robot collaboration research robots, this achitecture allows for rapid changes in instrumentation configuration and provides a high degree of modularity through a synergistic mix of off-the-shelf and custom designed components, allowing eased transplantation into a wide variety of mobile robot platforms. A component level overview of this architecture is presented along with a description of the changes required for implementation on K10, followed by plans for future work.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Eric Park, Linda Kobayashi, Susan Y. Lee
• Keywords: ICRA 2005, Mobile Robot, Mobile Robot Hardware, NASA Ames Research Center, Robotics