The aim of this thesis is to create a flexible multi-purpose modular all terrain robot
platform, which has the potential to be used in commercial applications as well as in
education and research. In developing this robot platform, it is aimed to use readily
available commercial products as much as possible in order to keep the cost of the
product low, increase maintainability, and benefit from the improvements made to
these components in time. The modularity is attained by designing a two wheeled
base module which is autonomous on its own. This base module is composed of
two wheels where, the motors located inside these wheels. It is shown that the
proposed base module facilitates the configuration of various robots to suit the
needs of diverse applications. Detailed design and manufacturing of one of various
possible configurations is presented. Performance tests are conducted on this robot
configuration and effectiveness of the proposed modular approach is justified.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611858/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2010 |
| Creators | Kul, Mustafa Cihangir |
| Contributors | Koku, A. Bugra |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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