Rediscovering the experimental robotic platform MASHI

This Bachelor’s Thesis about robotics works in the experimental robotic platform MASHI, created by the PhD student Dennys Paillacho, ESPOL, Ecuador. He designed and built a social robot for studying proxemics interactions between people and robot. The platform became an interesting opportunity as a robotic platform for another theses, and this is a clear example. In this thesis a new computational unit for the platform has been installed and programmed to replace the initial one without interfering negatively in any of its functionalities. During a semester, the robot has been analysed and reconstructed from almost the beginning, and a new implementation has been developed. The main objective is to improve easiness and accessibility to the platform such that future students will use the same platform to make research and to implement new subsystems and functions. The robotic platform has been designed with commercial components, so there is a huge number of ways of improving i