SambotII: A New Self-Assembly Modular Robot Platform Based on Sambot

SambotII: A New Self-Assembly Modular Robot Platform Based on Sambot

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A new self-assembly modular robot (SMR) SambotII is developed based on SambotI, which is a previously-built hybird type SMR that is capable of autonomous movement and self-assembly.As is known, SambotI only has limited abilities of environmental perception and target recognition, because its STM-32 processor cannot handle heavy work, like image processing and path planning.To improve 9x11 pergola the computing ability, an x86 dual-core CPU is applied and a hierarchical software architecture with five layers is designed.In addition, to enhance its perception abilities, a laser-camera unit and a LED-camera unit are employed to obtain dosatron d40mz2 the distance and angle information, respectively, and the color-changeable LED lights are used to identify different passive docking surfaces during the docking process.

Finally, the performances of SambotII are verified by docking experiments.