Runner Project
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| Start | 2001 |
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| Project type | ISEP students developed |
| Location | Porto, Portugal |
| Facilities | F005 in ISEP Campus |
| Researchers | 3 |
| Part of the | Autonomous Systems Laboratory |
| Homepage | https://www.lsa.isep.ipp.pt/~runner |
The Runner Project is a student developed multipurpose mobile platform (Unmanned Ground Vehicle), from the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (in Portuguese Laboratório Sistemas Autónomos), a research unit of the Porto Superior Institute of Engineering.
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[edit] History
Starting in 2001 the robot was developed in the final year projects of Nuno Moreira and Alexandre Rocha (students in Electrical engineering - Electronics and Computers of ISEP). A proposed scenario of operation was considered for the developement of a vison based navigation system. This scenario consists in the standard test proposed in the Portuguese Robotics Festival in the Autonomous Driving competition for university teams.
Since that several students participated in the anual Festival Nacional de Robótica event. Namely:
- Robótica 2002 took place from 24 to 27 of April on Pavilhão Aristides Hall in Aveiro, Portugal.
- Robótica 2003 took place from 8 to 11th of May in the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa (ex-FIL).
- Robótica 2004 took place from 22 to 25 of April at Pavilhão Rosa Mota in Oporto, Portugal.
- Robótica 2005 took place from 29 of April to 1 of May on Pavilhão Multi-Usos in Coimbra, Portugal.
- Robótica 2006 took place from 28 of April to 1 of May on Pavilhão Multi-Pavilhão Multiusos of Universidade de Minho, Portugal.
- Robótica 2007 will take place from 27 to 29 of April 2007 on Pavilhão Desportivo in Paderne (Albufeira), Algarve, Portugal.
[edit] Objectives
This robot has created as testbed for navigation and control research and education in mobile robotics.
