DORI: Distributed Outdoor Robotic Instruments
Andrew Fuller, Vedran Budimcic

TL;DR
DORI is a fault-tolerant, remotely controlled robotic vehicle equipped with diverse environmental sensors, designed for planetary exploration simulations and utilizing recycled electronics for cost-effective hardware.
Contribution
The paper introduces a comprehensive hardware design for DORI, a fault-tolerant robotic platform with diverse sensors, emphasizing low-cost construction using recycled electronics.
Findings
DORI can perform basic environmental data analysis and remote data upload.
The system demonstrates fault tolerance through distributed sensor components.
Utilizes recycled consumer electronics for cost-effective sensor integration.
Abstract
DORI (Distributed Outdoor Robotic Instruments) is a remotely controlled vehicle that is designed to simulate a planetary exploration mission. DORI is equipped with over 20 environmental sensors and can perform basic data analysis, logging and remote upload. The individual components are distributed across a fault-tolerant bus for redundancy. A partial sensor list includes atmospheric pressure, rainfall, wind speed, GPS, gyroscopic inertia, linear acceleration, magnetic field strength, temperature, laser and ultrasonic distance sensing, as well as digital audio and video capture. The project uses recycled consumer electronics devices as a low-cost source for sensor components. This report describes the hardware design of DORI including sensor electronics, embedded firmware, and physical construction.
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Taxonomy
TopicsModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence · Robotics and Automated Systems · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
