Title :
A LEGO Mindstorms NXT based multirobot system
Author :
Brigandi, Sean ; Field, Jennifer ; Wang, Yunfeng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Coll. of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Lego Mindstorms robots kits are popular hands-on robotics tools for math, science and engineering education. The recently developed NXT system is much more powerful than the previous RCX system, and has great potential for scholarly research. In this paper, we investigated and tested the capabilities and limitations of NXT system for its application to multirobot systems. To demonstrate our work, a functional prototype has been constructed and used to verify a swarm intelligence based algorithm.
Keywords :
engineering education; mathematics computing; multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems; robot programming; Lego Mindstorms NXT; engineering education; mathematics education; multirobot system; robotics tool; science education; swarm intelligence based algorithm; Bluetooth; Intelligent sensors; Multirobot systems; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8031-9
DOI :
10.1109/AIM.2010.5695933
