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.
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