Squirt: The Prototypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate Students

Abstract

This paper describes an exercise in building a complete robot aimed at being as small as possible but using off the shelf components exclusively. The results is an autonomous mobile robot slightly larger than one cubic inch which incorporates sensing, actuation, onboard computation and onboard power supplies. Nicknamed Squirt, this robot acts as a bug, hiding in dark corners and venturing out in the direction of last heard noises, only moving after the noises are long gone. Keywords: Miniature robot; Robotics; Autonomous robot; Subsumption architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA212337

Entities

People

  • Anita M. Flynn
  • David S. Barrett
  • Rodney A. Brooks
  • William M. Wells Iii

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Debugging
  • Detectors
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Power Supplies
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Robot Navigation
  • Robotics
  • Robots

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy