The Uranus Mobile Robot

Abstract

The Uranus mobile robot was built by Carnegie Mellon University's Mobile Robot Lab to provide a general purpose mobile base to support research in to indoor robot navigation. As a base, it provides full mobility, along with support for a variety of payloads, such as sensors and computers. This report details the design and maintenance of Uranus's mechanical, electrical, and software systems, and is intended to serve two purposes. First, it acts as documentation for the robot. Second, it offers a perspective in to mobile robot design, showing the decision, tradeoffs, and evolution that are involved in the design of a system of this complexity. Hopefully, others building similar systems will be able to profit from our experience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA236593

Entities

People

  • Mike Blackwell

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Battery Chargers
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuit Breakers
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Connectors
  • Guidance
  • Maintenance
  • Navigation
  • Power Distribution
  • Power Supplies
  • Robot Navigation
  • Robots
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction