Firebots: Autonomous Fire Detecting Robots

914 PC-BOTS

The 914 PC-BOT from Whitebox Robotics has been predominantly designed to serve as a development platform for a variety of applications such R&D, academic research and proof-of-concept projects and offers a great deal of design versatility. The robot consists of very standard PC hardware which can be very easily accessed, programmed, configured and modified. It offers numerous enabling technologies such as 802.11g wireless communication (see Appendix A for detailed specifications). Many operating systems such as Windows, UNIX and several flavors of Linux (including Ubuntu) can be deployed on the pcbot. In order to utilize several open source robotics and sensor interfacing projects such as Player/Stage, Ubuntu Linux was chosen as the main platform for this project.