Robot operating system (ros) como plataforma para extender las capacidades de legos nxt

Abstract

This paper presents the study of Robot Operating System (ROS). It explain what is ROS, what it is for, the architecture and of course shows ROS as a platform to extend the capabilities of Legos NXT. The objective of this research stems from the need to promote the use of ROS, as it should be stressed that is freely available and open source. ROS is a development framework for robotics algorithms, which allowed the implementation for the aplication "LASER SCANNER". The main objective of this application is to implement ROS in various programming languages like it was used for Python and C + +. For this application we use Legos NXT, a USB webcam and a line laser. What the application does is scan an object which is in a certain position for a line laser illum inates it from top to bottom in order to take a picture of it. It will take a picture of the object in certain position, which will be stored in a route specified and thereby obtain the object's shape.