
III. HARDWARE
A. PLATFORM
1. Foster-Miller Lemming
The Foster-Miller Corporation has been building the Lemming robot platform for
many years and the basic design plan is to “develop light, sturdy, compact robots that can
be adapted for ordnance removal, reconnaissance, communication, relays, sensing and
security”[Ref 5]. The NPS SMART robot is an older generation Lemming received from
Coastal Systems Station (CSS) Naval research facility in Panama City, Florida. Upon
receipt at NPS the existing control hardware was removed and the focus of this thesis is
the integration of the new COTS component based control system.
Figure 6. Bender
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