Aplicação de um robô aspirador como plataforma robótica do Instituto Federal do Piauí

Abstract

This work presents the adaptation of a commercial vacuum robot in a mobile robotic platform. The aim is to create a platform that can be used in the classroom for teaching robotics in the mechanical engineering course at the Instituto Federal do Piauí. For this, the Roomba 614 iRobot robot was acquired due to the execution of the Applied Robotics for Engineering project. This specific robot was chosen because the company iRobot uses it as a basis for the educational robot Create 2, developed by the same company, which unfortunately is not for sale in the country. Using this base, it was possible to create a robot that communicates with the Robot Operating System (ROS), via micro-ROS, thus allowing access to data from embedded sensors and its operation. A 3D printed base was created, where different sensors can be fixed and adapted to different scenarios. Finally, a documentation was created, containing all the information necessary to operate and modify the robot.