Robotino

USB, Ethernet

Wi-Fi

Robotinos is a mobile robotic system for education and research of the company Festo Didactic. Robotinos is moved by an omnidirectional drive. This Robotinos can move in the plane completely free ( holonomic ). The existing on Robotinos Industrial PC PC104 allows autonomous driving.

About Wireless LAN sends Robotinos sensor values ​​to an external PC. Control values ​​can be sent from the external PC to Robotinos. This allows control programs are executed both directly on Robotinos, as well as on a workstation. Robotinos comes with the graphical programming environment Robotinos View. In Robotino View control programs are represented as data flow graphs. In a sequential function chart control programs can be integrated into an overall process. In addition Robotinos can in C, C , Java,. Net, Matlab, Simulink, LabVIEW, Robot Operating System ( ROS) and MRDS be programmed.

The omni-directional drive system consists of three driven Allseitenrädern. The wheels are arranged at an angle of 120 ° to each other. As sensor Robotinos has a bumper bar, infrared distance sensors, a color camera with VGA resolution, optical encoders on the motors, power measurement at the whole system and the individual motors, and battery voltage monitoring. As more sensors are a gyroscope, the North Star Company evolutionary robotics, as well as a laser scanner available.

For the input and output Robotinos has several interfaces:

• USB
• Ethernet
• 8 digital and 8 analog inputs
• 8 digital outputs
• Additional motor output to drive high loads
• Additional encoder input

The power supply is provided by two 12V/5Ah lead gel batteries.