NanoBot

Doing research with swarm robotic behavior is often challenging because of the high cost of robots. As an advancement of RoboBoard, Jamie Cho and I set out to design an extremely cheap, easily mass producible PCB based robot designed for both being an advanced standalone robot as well as having cooperative robotic abilities. With a BOM cost of under $10, and minimal manufacturing process, we were able to create a fully functional robotic frame which uses the Arduino Nano as the core computational platform. We built systems to auto-calibrate all of the sensors from a simple procedure, and even auto-charge (NanoBots have docking capabilities) each robot in order to make using multiple NanoBots easy.

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Features: 

• 150 mAh battery

• Two micro stepper motors for drive system, enabling a high degree of accuracy for odometry use.

• Four radial IR sensors

• Speaker

• Microphone

• Downward facing IR sensor for ledge detector/line following

• 3 axis Accelerometer

• 3 axis Magnetometer

• 2 mechanical bump sensors​