Plantbot: A New ROS-based Robot Platform for Fast Building and Developing
Liulong Ma, Yibo Gao, ChuanMing Zhu, Yanjie Liu

TL;DR
Plantbot is a customizable, low-cost ROS-based robot platform designed for rapid development, algorithm testing, and educational purposes, addressing the limitations of existing bulky and expensive robots.
Contribution
This paper introduces Plantbot, a flexible and affordable robot platform that can be easily redesigned and expanded for various research and educational applications.
Findings
Successful SLAM implementation on Plantbot
Effective navigation demonstrated in experiments
Platform's low-cost and modular design verified
Abstract
In recent years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is developing rapidly and has been widely used in robotics research because of its flexible, open source, and extensive advantages. In scientific research, the corresponding hardware platform is indispensable for the experiment. In the field of mobile robots, PR2, Turtlebot2, and Fetch are commonly used as research platforms. Although these platforms are fully functional and widely used, they are expensive and bulky. What\u2019s more, these robots are not easily redesigned and expanded according to requirements. To overcome these limitations, we propose Plantbot, an easy-building, low-cost robot platform that can be redesigned and expanded according to requirements. It can be applied to not only fast algorithm verification, but also simple factory inspection and ROS teaching. This article describes this robot platform from several…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRobotic Path Planning Algorithms · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
