Marvin the Robot
Marvin the Robot
Marvin (Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation) is a mobile robot developed at the Robotics Laboratory University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. This platform consists of a differential drive, the bumper to the basic operational security, planar laser scanners at the front and rear obstacle detection, belt ultrasonic sensors to detect the jutting edges, such as tables, web camera and another fast laser scanner at a height of one meter from root-free microphone and a stereo system, localization of sound sources. Sin control system behavior follows an approach based on your skills and, depending on the strategy for mapping 2D geometric and topological.
While the transport systems are available on the market, particularly on the basis of planned or regular journeys, Marvin can respond to dynamic changes in their environment, to change, of course, without interference or the risk of collision exists. Even more important is its ability to unknown structured environment for the creation of the card. Extracted topological map is the basis for the transportation problem, and contributes to the intuitive user interface (for example, to the city). Given the flexible structure and the future extensions of the software is easy. For example, the “intelligent” robot may install script service, maintenance and security on the basis of the actual location information.
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