Table of Contents
Advertisement
I
N T R O D U C T I O N
Congratulations on your purchase of AmigoBot and welcome to the rapidly growing community
of ActivMedia's intelligent mobile robot enthusiasts.
This AmigoBot User's Guide provides both the general and technical
details you need to operate your AmigoBot. We encourage you also to
use these companion resources:
ActivMedia Robotics software and support services at
AmigoBot-users newsgroup
24-hour AmigoBot-support email service
AmigoBot applications online Help
W h a t i s A m i g o B o t ?
AmigoBot is an intelligent mobile robot: not a toy, but a powerfully smart moving machine.
Intelligent because it has an onboard microcontroller with software (AmigOS) and sensors that
enable the robot to sense what's around it and to safely drive in and around its environment.
Combined with state-of-the-art robotics software like ActivMedia Robotics' Interface for
Applications (ARIA) and Saphira running on your PC, AmigoBot can actually determine where it
is and find its way safely from one place to the next, with your help (teleoperation) and without
your help (self-guided navigation), all the while going around obstacles, through doors, over
bumps, under tables...
AmigoBot is the culmination of many years of mobile-robotics research and development by
experts in artificial- and machine-intelligence from around the world. ActivMedia's Pioneer was
the first device to make intelligent mobile robotics affordable for most colleges and universities.
It quickly became the leading off-the-shelf mobile robot for research and development
institutions around the world. All of ActivMedia Robotics' commercial robots, including Pioneer,
PeopleBot, and PowerBot, use the same basic sensing, drive system, and robotics software
architecture used by AmigoBot, ActivMedia Robotics' first personal robot.
http://www.amigobot.com
Figure 1: AmigoBot's features and dimensions
Introduction
1
Advertisement
Table of Contents
