Brico: Pluggable Robotic Components
Brico: Pluggable Robotic Components
The Concept
One of the central challenges of personal robotics is the continual
re-invention and re-development of common hardware and software solutions.
The Brico Project is an effort to develop a series of reuable hardware
and software components to allow rapid assembly of robotic structures and
programming of autonomous behavior. The hardware and software components
are intended to be 'hot pluggable', sharing common styles of attachment
points for physical assembly and a standard for data and power cable
connections. We affectionately refer to the individual pluggable components
as brics.
Virtual Robotics
We are current working on the design of software analogs of the hardware
components using the Beyond 2
virtual world simulation framework. The intention is to experiment
with the design of virtual robots as a way to further speed the development
of real robots. In addition, the behavior that drives virtual Brico
components will be downloadable into real Brico robots built from physical
versions of the virtual components.
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