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The Track: Technion Robot And Controller Kit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

David Bar-On ,
Shaul Gutman  and
Amos Israeli
David Bar-On
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Shaul Gutman
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Amos Israeli
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, (Israel)
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Summary

A modular hierarchical model for controlling robots is presented. This model is targeted mainly for research and development; it enables researchers to concentrate on a certain specific task of robotics, while using existing building blocks for the rest of their applications. The presentation begins by discussing the problems with which researchers and engineers of robotics are faced whenever trying to use existing commercial robots. Based on this discussion we propose a new general model for robot control to be referred as TERM (TEchnion Robotic Model). The viability of the new model is demonstrated by implementing a general purpose robot controller.

Type
Research Article
Information
Robotica , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , March 1993 , pp. 119 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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