Lola, the Mobile Robot from North Carolina State University

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 13

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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 13

AAAI-96 Robot Competition & Exhibition Abstracts

The North Carolina State University team intends to participate in the 1996 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition with Lola, a Nomad 200. This year marks our third entry in this competition. Lola is a Nomad 200 with a standard 16-transducer sonar ring and tactile bumper sensors. We have taken advantage of the Nomad’s modularity and moved 3 of the rear sonars to the front just above the bumper. This provides Lola with the ability t,o sense chairs and other potential obstacles that might otherwise be unseen.