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General specifications:
  • Dimensions : cylinder: diameter 16cm x height 18cm
  • Weight : 900g
  • Max speed : 1 m/s
  • Autonomy : 2 - 3h
Functions:
  • Wall following
  • Environment discovery and cartography (made with wall following and other basic behaviour).
  • Wall recognition (still in progress...)
  • Orientation and position realignment inside buildings with walls oriented 90deg from each others (still in progress)
  • Path planning
  • Obstacle avoidance
  • Playing soccer
  • Web based HMI
Electronics:
  • Motherboard : Acme FOX LX with Axis ETRAX 100 LX 32Mo RAM + 8Mo Flash
  • Operating system: LINUX kernel 2.4
  • Language : C
  • Ethernet port
  • WiFi via USB key
  • Second controler : PICBASIC 3B (For interfacing motors, sonars, LCD display, buzzer). Link to motherboard via serial port.
  • Decoder: HCTL 2032 directly linked to the FoxBoard
Sensors:
  • 5 Ultra Sonic Sensors
  • Optical quadrature encoders mounted directly on wheels. Made with rests of mouse.
  • CMU Cam
Power :
  • Batteries : Ni-Mh 9.6V 2.3Ah Made with 8 LR6 elements
  • Charger : integrated charge regulator made with Max712
  • External Power supply for charging battery, and powering the robot
  • Charge time: 4h
  • Motors driven via LM298
  • 2 independant rearmable fuses (polyswitch)
  • 5V 700mA switching regulator made with LM2575
Mechanics:
  • Chassis made with 3mm plexiglass
  • Assembly with M3 screw and
  • Small toy motors (1W each)
HMI :
  • LCD screen 2x16 characters
  • Mini keyboard with 4 buttons (left, right, OK, cancel)
  • Mini buzzer
  • HMI via html page on integrated web server


Leon | 04/05/2008