Integrating Low-Cost Robot Devices into Pyro

Pyro is a Python-based software environment for robot control that is designed to minimize the necessity of programmers “having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware.” Pyro supports multiple robot platforms, but until recently, most of them were prohibitively expensive for departments with large interest in robotics but with low budgets. This paper describes our experiences at adding support for lower-cost robots in the Pyro environment.