The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics

Open Source Software is a vital catalyst within the academic robotics community. Frameworks built on open software, like the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the family of libraries that have grown up around it, ease the process by which researchers and students can create integrated, working system...

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Main Authors: Sheh, Raymond, Komsuoglu, H., Jacoff, A.
Other Authors: Masahiko Onosato
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37827
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author Sheh, Raymond
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description Open Source Software is a vital catalyst within the academic robotics community. Frameworks built on open software, like the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the family of libraries that have grown up around it, ease the process by which researchers and students can create integrated, working systems. This has allowed those who have little experience or academic interest in areas like software engineering, communications or artificial intelligence, to make use of others' contributions and build on them in their own areas of expertise. The Open Academic Robot Kit seeks to foster a similar community around open hardware designs for flexible, customised, low cost academic and research robots. It leverages recent advances in 3D printing and the mass production of microcontroller boards, sensors, smart servos and other components for the Maker community. The emphasis is on the ease with which other researchers, students and members of the wider hobbyist and Maker communities, in different fields, may contribute, replicate and extend the designs.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-378272017-09-13T14:28:06Z The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics Sheh, Raymond Komsuoglu, H. Jacoff, A. Masahiko Onosato Open Source Software is a vital catalyst within the academic robotics community. Frameworks built on open software, like the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the family of libraries that have grown up around it, ease the process by which researchers and students can create integrated, working systems. This has allowed those who have little experience or academic interest in areas like software engineering, communications or artificial intelligence, to make use of others' contributions and build on them in their own areas of expertise. The Open Academic Robot Kit seeks to foster a similar community around open hardware designs for flexible, customised, low cost academic and research robots. It leverages recent advances in 3D printing and the mass production of microcontroller boards, sensors, smart servos and other components for the Maker community. The emphasis is on the ease with which other researchers, students and members of the wider hobbyist and Maker communities, in different fields, may contribute, replicate and extend the designs. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37827 10.1109/SSRR.2014.7017663 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle Sheh, Raymond
Komsuoglu, H.
Jacoff, A.
The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title_full The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title_fullStr The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title_full_unstemmed The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title_short The Open Academic Robot Kit: Lowering the Barrier of Entry for Research into Response Robotics
title_sort open academic robot kit: lowering the barrier of entry for research into response robotics
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37827