Ultrasonic sensor explorer

摘要

Ultrasonic Sensor Explorer (USE) is a cheap mobile robot for mapping. Instead of expensive laser sensor, it uses cheap ultrasonic sensor HC-SR04 with range up to 4 meters. The chassis of the robot is made of ABS plastic material and it is 3D printed from a model called Mini-Me on RepRap Prusa Iteration 3 3D printer. The hardware is based on ROMEO BLE mainboard. The Software consists of two parts: firmware and application. The firmware part is an Arduino source code project, written in C++ programming language, which is deployed on the robot. The application part is Windows IoT source code, written in C# programming language, which can be run on PC, tablet, phone or ARM device. The suggested robot has been tested in the university lab environment. The presented concept proves it has a potential for SLAM.