This paper is concerned with safety aspects of autonomous robot software development. Autonomous robots may operate unattended and through an unsafe operation may cause significant human, economic, or mission losses. Similar problems were encountered early on in manufacturing automation; but autonomous robots may change their behavior and operate in much less controlled environments. We concent...

In this paper we present the current stage of development of EMMA, a small autonomous robot inspired by the Khepera robot widely distributed in the scientific community. EMMA features a modern microcontroller as the central processing unit (CPU) being very efficient in processing sensor and motor signals and a black–white camera as the main sensory system. The test application of EMMA is autono...

Developed at UWE Bristol’s Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Laboratory for conducting experiments in collective mobile robotics, the LinuxBot is a proven and reliable wireless-networked wheeled mobile robot capable of supporting a wide range of sensors and actuators. The robot has a Linux-based software and communications architecture, which embeds TCP/IP networking tools including FTP, Tel...