istarendil / chelonii

Chelonii

The Chelonii robot is a fully open-source physical-expermiental platform intended for the study of mobile robots control, artificial vision, navigation and machine learning. It is an effort to build a affordable platform for the students in the "Control of mobile robots" course to be able to construct their own low-cost platform that allows them to continue experiment and learning outside the campus.

Main characteristics

• The Chelonii robot has a morphology of a differential robot.
• The robot is intended to be used with the Robot Operating System (ROS2) runing in an embedded system such as Raspberyy Pi.
• The low-level controller could be any Arduino-like board such as the STM32 Nucleo-f401re
• The cad files of the system are completely open-source using the FreeCad format
• An URDF descriptor is also available
  

Demo

• This project is still at an early stage and efforts are being made on the mechanical design.
• Some major changes will be made between the original mechanical structure and the current model.
• You can have a better look of the Chelonii through the following link