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Autonomous Mini Robot "Alice '99"

Motivation Design as cheap and small as possible an intelligent mobile robot

Study collective behavior with large quantity of robots
Acquire knowledge in highly integrated intelligent system

System Description

Base module

Plastic frame and flex print

2 SWATCH motors with wheels and tires
Microcontroller PIC16F84 with 1Kwords Flash program memory
10 pin connector for extension
3 small watch batteries
Voltage regulator and power switch

Proximity sensors module

4 proximity sensors SFH-900

4 channel ADC
8 channel MUX
Control via Serial Port Interface
Local IR robot-robot communication

Radio module

Low power: 1mA RX, 8mA TX

Simple interface via 2 lines
500 bit/s half duplex
Communication robot-robot and robot-host PC
More than 10 meters (500 times Alice's length!)

Projects and RobOnWeb

applications Navigation and map building
Soccer Kit : 2 teams of 3 Alices play socceron a A4 page
Collective behavior investigations: video.mov 1 and 2
Commercialization by K-Team
Alice supported by the simulator Webots
Off-road version: LAMAlice

Other Control via a standard TV remote

Alice cover to see each other in collectivetests
Publication file.pdf 176 KB

Advantages Small size

Long power autonomy
Soft- and hardware flexibility
Simple and inexpensive
Nice

Specifications Dimensions 22mm x 20mm x 19mm

Velocity 35 mm/s
Power consumption < 10mW
Infrared communication 6m
Power autonomy up to 10 hours
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