QBOT: An educational mobile robot controlled in MATLAB Simulink environment

Author

Huq, Rajibul ; Lacheray, Hervé ; Fulford, Cameron ; Wight, Derek ; Apkarian, Jacob

Author_Institution

Quanser Consulting Inc., Markham, ON

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 May 2009

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

353

Abstract

This paper describes Quanser´s mobile robot control framework (QMRCF) for an educational robot called Qbot. The QMRCF accelerates the development of mobile robot control algorithms and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing using model-based design techniques of matlab simulink. This paper also validates the performance of QMRCF using several experiments in various research fields of mobile robotics, e.g., teleoperation, navigation, and obstacle avoidance.

Keywords

collision avoidance; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; mathematics computing; mobile robots; Qbot; Quanser mobile robot control framework; educational mobile robot; hardware-in-the-loop testing; matlab simulink environment; model-based design technique; obstacle avoidance; Cameras; Hardware; Infrared image sensors; MATLAB; Mobile robots; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Testing; MATLAB Simulink; Mobile robot control; hardware-in-the-loop testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009. CCECE '09. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

St. John´s, NL

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3509-8

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090152

Filename

5090152