The goal of this repository is to introduce a new, customizable, scalable, and fully opensource mobile robot platform, called SMARTmBOT (v2021). In this repository, we provide a detailed tutorial, and all design files and source codes so that you can build your own SMARTmBOT with off-the-shelf components and also customize its design and functionalities according to your needs. SMARTmBOT supports a new Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) on Raspberry Pi 4, and we expect SMARTmBOT to be definitely useful for studying the basics of robotics, especially mobile robotics. SMARTmBOT can also be used to study advanced topics such as swarm robotics.

Please refer to our Wiki page for a detailed tutorial on SMARTmBOT. The content of the tutorial is as follows:

1. Basic ROS2 Example

2. Build SMARTmBOT (Hardware)

3. Build SMARTmBOT (Software)

4. SMARTmBOT Examples

You can also read or download a PDF version of SMARTmBOT Guide/Manual, and watch a full demo video of the SMARTmBOT at https://youtu.be/cn3vcqFgf90.

If you have any questions or find any issues on SMARTmBOT, please feel free to contact us. We will fix and update them as soon as possible.

All of the contributors are with SMART Lab, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

🌍Jaeeun Kim Software [email protected]

🌍Wonse Jo Hardware [email protected]

🌍Byung-Cheol Min Director [email protected]

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1846221. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.