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Vol: 51(65) No: 1 / March 2006       Use of Autonomous Mini Robots in Modeling Jozsef Tick Department of Software Engineering, Budapest Tech, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b., 1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: (361) 666-5550, e-mail: tick@bmf.hu, web: http://www.bmf.hu/tick Keywords: control systems, robotics, software engineering. Abstract The modeling of control systems provides several useful information on the expected behavior of a final system. A great advantage of modeling, which might be considered as a supplement to the simulation of controlling is demonstration, and the examination of the impact of parameters that can be simulated only with difficulty on the system to be developed. This paper deals with the selection and application of a mini autonomous robot that can be used for demonstration and experimental development in higher education. The paper also considers the special requirements determined by the given environment, the selection criteria, the questions of implementation into systems and a case study. References [1] A. Sowmya, D. Tsz-Wang So and W. H. Tang, “Design of a mobile robot controller using Esterel tools”, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1 – 8, 2002. [2] A. Saffiotti, “The use of fuzzy logic in autonomous robot navigation”, Soft Computing, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 180 – 197, 1997. [3] S. Skaff, G. A. Kantor, D. Maiwand and A. Rizzi, “Inertial navigation and visual line following for a dynamical hexapod robot”, Proceedings of 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), vol. 2, pp. 1808 – 1813, 2003. [4] R. Gruber and J. Grewe, “Mehr Spaß mit ASURO”, Band 1, 2005.