A New Operating System and Application Programming Interface for the EvBot Robot Platform

Abstract

The research presented in this thesis describes the development of the Linux distribution and a new control architecture for robots. The reasons Linux was chosen are enumerated and a description of the build system and setup used to generate the distribution, with support for multiple platforms, is discussed. The Evbot Abstraction Layer (EAL), a new robot control architecture and framework is described, and the simple API is detailed.