TurtleBot

TurtleBot is a personal robot kit with open source software. It was created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote in November 2010.[1]

TurtleBot
DeveloperCommunity
Written inVarious (Notably C++ and Python)
OS familyROS
Working stateCurrent (TurtleBot 2)
Source modelopen source, open source hardware
Initial release2011 (2011)
Marketing targetPersonal robots, mobile robots
Default
user interface		Many
LicenseBSD, OSHW Statement of Principles and Definition v1.0

The TurtleBot kit consists of a mobile base, a 3D Sensor, a laptop computer, and the TurtleBot mounting hardware kit. In addition to the kit, the TurtleBot SDK is available online.[2]

Versions

TurtleBot 1

TurtleBot 1 consists of an iRobot Create base, a 3000 mAh battery pack, a TurtleBot power board with gyro, a Kinect sensor, an Asus 1215N laptop with a dual core processor, and a hardware mounting kit attaching everything together and adding future sensors.

TurtleBot 2
A TurtleBot 2

TurtleBot 2 consists of an YUJIN Kobuki base, a 2200 mAh battery pack, a Kinect sensor, an Asus 1215N laptop with a dual core processor, fast charger, and a hardware mounting kit attaching everything together and adding future sensors.

TurtleBot 3
A Turtlebot 3

Turtlebot 3, announced and developed in collaboration with ROBOTIS and Open Source Robotics Foundation, is the smallest and cheapest of its generation.[3] It has outstanding structural expansion capability due to ROBOTIS’ renowned modular structure with the DYNAMIXEL.

TurtleBot 4

Turtlebot 4 is using a iRobot Create3 robot as a base with a compute and sensor package consisting of a Raspberry PI 4, a Lidar and a RGB-D camera.

Community

TurtleBot has been used by research labs for doing multi-robot research and human robot interaction research. Many universities are also using the TurtleBot to teach introductory robotics courses.[4][5][6]

Licensing

TurtleBot is a licensed trademark that is maintained by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. The Open Source Robotics Foundation licenses the use of the TurtleBot trademark for manufacturing and distributing TurtleBot branded products.[7]

References
  1. "Interview: TurtleBot Inventors Tell Us Everything About the Robot". IEEE Spectrum.
  2. "turtlebot". Open Source Robotics Foundation. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  3. "Robotis and OSRF Announce TurtleBot 3: Smaller, Cheaper, and Modular". IEEE Spectrum.
  4. "University of South Carolina: CSCE574 Robotics". University of South Carolina.
  5. "Johns Hopkins University: ME530707". Johns Hopkins University.
  6. "School of Engineering Students Leading Robotics Research at St. Thomas". University of St. Thomas.
  7. "Become a TurtleBot Manufacturer or Distributor". Open Source Robotics Foundation.
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