A low cost mobile platform for educational robotic applications

This paper proposes a low cost mobile platform for robotic applications which is mainly addressed to educators and developers. Most of robotic models in the market use USB or serial standard protocol to retrieve sensor information, and this can generate delays on sensor readings and degradation of the overall performances. The proposed mobile robotic platform is based instead on the Controller Area Network, namely CAN-bus, which permits to obtain high performances and to increase flexibility and expandability for future technology integration.

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