Το work with title Upgrading a legacy outdoors robotic vehicle by Piperidis Savvas, Ntegiannakis Theodosios, Mavromatakis Odysseas, Tsourveloudis Nikolaos is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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T. Ntegiannakis, O. Mavromatakis, S. Piperidis and N.C. Tsourveloudis, "Upgrading a legacy outdoors robotic vehicle," in International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region, 2018, pp.222-235. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-00232-9_23
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Summary
ATRV-mini was a popular, 2000’s commercially available, outdoors robot. The successful upgrade procedure of a decommissioned ATRV-mini is presented in this paper. Its robust chassis construction, skid steering ability, and optional wifi connectivity were the major reasons for its commercial success, mainly for educational and research purposes. However the advances in electronics, microcontrollers and software during the last decades were not followed by the robot’s manufacturer. As a result, the robot became obsolete and practically useless despite its good characteristics. The upgrade used up to date, off the shelf components and open source software tools. There was a major enhancement at robot’s processing power, energy consumption, weight and autonomy time. Experimental testing proved the upgraded robot’s operational integrity and capability of undertaking educational, research and other typical robotic tasks.