An Embedded Platform for Intelligent Mobile Robot

Abstract

To overcome the limitations of the special architectures adopted by traditional industrial robots, an embedded intelligent robot platform based on Windows CE.NET is established by customizing the operating system. On this intelligent robot platform, all major necessary sensors are included, and abundant control interfaces and driver modules are available, such as movement control interface, USB camera driver, laser driver, etc. Besides, various testing software and application modules for intelligent robot are designed, such as multi-sensor data fusion, path planning, speech recognition, wireless network communication and graphic human-robot interface. The platform is modularized, extensible, transplantable and customizable. Compared to the previous robot platform, it also has many advantages such as more compact hardware, lower-power consumption, better real-time performance and higher reliability