Roomba Hacking
PJWSTK's Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems department bought ten iRobot Roombas. The lab is finally clean.
The Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems department at PJWSTK bought ten iRobot Roombas. The lab is finally clean.
The nice thing about Roombas is the open programming API — there's a Player/Stage driver, which is what we use in the Virtual Robotics Lab. To make the robots autonomous, we decided to add a small FoxBoard computer running Linux, a webcam, and a USB WiFi dongle to each one.