The TurtleBot (created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote) is a low-cost, personal robot kit with an associated mobile-based open-source software platform to operate the hardware. TurtleBot does real time obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation by running Standard Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms to build a map that can be controlled remotely from your smartphones. With TurtleBot, it is possible to have a robot that can drive around your house, see in 3D, and have enough power left to create additional applications.
3D simulation of TurtleBot using Blender
3D real time map creation using Microsoft kinect to generate point cloud
The final TurtleBot model
