Alice

Alice

Alice is a new robot I built after Loki, to provide a smaller platform for testing algorithms. Alice runs mostly the same software as Loki, with a few modifications to match the hardware differences, and she has a female voice.

Alice Design

Alice is built upon a “Kobuki” robot base, which is sort of an upgraded version of the iRobot Create / Roomba.  The popular ROS Turtlebot 2 is built on this same base.  See Windows Turtle for a robot built on iRobot Create base.

Alice uses an Intel NUC computer, which then talks to peripherals over USB.  Looking at the picture from top to bottom you can see:

• Kinect depth camera
• Lilliput display (connected to the NUC over HDMI)
• Creative depth camera (experimental)
• Speaker
• Arduino Mega 2560 (behind the Speaker)
• Intel NUC computer
• USB Hub
• Kobuki Base

I’ll be adding more info about Alice as soon as I get a chance…

Here are some more pictures: