In search of a cost effective way to develop autonomous floor mapping robots. Nguyen, H., Eguchi, A., & Hooten, D. In 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), pages 107--112, 2011.
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Simulation can be used to reduce the time and cost to develop a new technology. This paper describes the development of an autonomous floor mapping robot. In order to reduce the cost of building prototypes to test the program, we used the Simbad 3D simulator. To test in a more realistic environment, we established a way to control objects in a virtual world Second Life. Then, for the hardware part, we built a low cost robot with cheap but accurate Sharp IR sensors with a regular optical mouse.
@inproceedings{nguyen_search_2011,
	title = {In search of a cost effective way to develop autonomous floor mapping robots},
	doi = {10.1109/ROSE.2011.6058510},
	abstract = {Simulation can be used to reduce the time and cost to develop a new technology. This paper describes the development of an autonomous floor mapping robot. In order to reduce the cost of building prototypes to test the program, we used the Simbad 3D simulator. To test in a more realistic environment, we established a way to control objects in a virtual world Second Life. Then, for the hardware part, we built a low cost robot with cheap but accurate Sharp IR sensors with a regular optical mouse.},
	booktitle = {2011 {IEEE} {International} {Symposium} on {Robotic} and {Sensors} {Environments} ({ROSE})},
	author = {Nguyen, Hung and Eguchi, A. and Hooten, D.},
	year = {2011},
	keywords = {Floor mapping, Floors, Mice, Navigation, Robot kinematics, Robot sensing systems, Simbad 3D simulator, Simulation, autonomous floor mapping robots, infrared detectors, mobile robots, mouse controllers (computers), path planning, realistic environment, regular optical mouse, sharp IR sensors, virtual reality, virtual world second life},
	pages = {107--112}
}

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