A Distributed Multirobot System Based on Edutainment Robots

Abstract

Reliability, simplicity and low cost are three properties that are difficult to combine in Robotics. Therefore, this combination has a great interest for education institutions. Our work is addressed to develop multirobot system using low cost platform. Simple LEGO© robots are enhanced by adding them expansion modules, in order to break its main limitations, and integrating it in an off-board programming system. A distributed architecture structured in four processing levels is implemented in order to allow users to manage, control and program a multirobot system through Internet.