E-puck mobile robot

e-puck mobile robot

The e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof. Roland Siegwart at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). The e-puck is open hardware and its onboard software is open source, and is built[1] and sold[2] by several companies.

Technical details

Extensions

New modules can be stacked on top of the e-puck; the following extensions are available:[3]

Scientific use

Since the e-puck is open hardware, its price is lower than competitors.[4] This is leading to a rapid adoption by the scientific community in research[5] despite the original educational orientation of the robot. The e-puck has been used in collective robotics , evolutionary robotics , and art-oriented robotics .

References

  1. GCtronic and AAI
  2. Cyberbotics, RoadNarrows Robotics, and K-Team
  3. see extensions section at e-puck.org
  4. the e-puck costs around 950 CHF at time of writing, while the Khepera is around 3000 CHF
  5. A search on Google scholar of e-puck + mobile + robot returns 528 papers (2012-01-05)

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