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Contents<br />

Sommario I<br />

Summary III<br />

Thanks V<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

1.1 Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2 Context, Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.3 Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.4 Thesis Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

2 State <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Art 5<br />

2.1 Locomotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

2.2 Motion Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.3 Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

2.4 Games and Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

3 Mechanical Construction 21<br />

3.1 Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.2 Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.3 Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

3.4 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

3.5 Bumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

3.6 Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

3.7 Hardware Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

4 Control 39<br />

4.1 Wheel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

4.2 Matlab Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

4.3 PWM Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

VII

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