LIDAR for Scribbler 2
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
8-3-2017
Journal / Book Title
IEEE
Abstract
This paper describes a project to enhance a commonly used educational robot, the Parallax Scribbler 2 (S2), by adding more sensor capabilities and making it truly autonomous. The S2 is a popular platform in high school and college robotics courses yet it lacks significant capacity that is compensated by often pairing it with Fluke 2, an interface/controller card developed by a third party group. However, while improving the robot's capability the Fluke card provides limited support for truly autonomous navigation, mainly due to the simplicity of some of the sensors as well as the technology used. In this project, the Fluke is replaced by a LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) sensor with communication supported by a IOIO-OTG (pronounced 'yo-yo-O-T-G') developer board and an inexpensive Android device. The resulting platform will allow for more reliable mapping capabilities as well as open the door for S2 based autonomous navigation to be studied and developed as part of robotics education.
DOI
10.1109/LISAT.2017.8001957
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Miller, Kevin S. and Robila, Stefan, "LIDAR for Scribbler 2" (2017). Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 379.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/compusci-facpubs/379
Published Citation
Miller, K. S., & Robila, S. A. (2017, May). LIDAR for Scribbler 2. In 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.