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Modular robots offer a robust and flexible framework for exploring adaptive locomotion control. They allow assembling robots of different types e.g. snakelike robots, robots with limbs, and many other different shapes. In this paper we present a new cheap modular robot called YaMoR (for “Yet another Modular Robot”). Each YaMoR module contains an FPGA and a microcontroller supporting a wide range of control strategies and high computational power. The Bluetooth interface included in each YaMoR module allows wireless communication between the modules and controlling the robot from a PC. With the help of our control software called Bluemove, we tested different configurations of our YaMoR robots like a wheel, caterpillar or configurations with limbs and their capabilities for locomotion.
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Moeckel, R., Jaquier, C., Drapel, K., Dittrich, E., Upegui, A., Ijspeert, A. (2006). YaMoR and Bluemove — An Autonomous Modular Robot with Bluetooth Interface for Exploring Adaptive Locomotion. In: Tokhi, M.O., Virk, G.S., Hossain, M.A. (eds) Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_82
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