Development of an experimental platform for testing mobile robot systems

The aim of this work is to propose an experimental platform to perform tests on mobile robot systems. The first stage of this work is to build a small arena equipped with a camera and a central computer able to communicate with tested robots. Then, we developed a program to process the images acquired by the camera to locate the robot based on the Hough and KLT calibration algorithms. The second phase involves the development of a unicycle type mobile robot, based on Arduino low-cost products. The last phase concerns the achievement of experimental tests on this robot in the arena. Thus, we have successfully performed tasks involving goal attainment and tracking planned trajectories.