marXbot

Michael Bonani, Tarek Baaboura, Philippe Retornaz, Florian Vaussard, Stéphane Magnenat, Daniel Burnier, Valentin Longchamp, Francesco Mondada

 

Class Modular research robot Size and Weight 17 cm diameter, 17 cm height, ~1000 g Degrees of Freedom 5: tracks (2), rotating scanner (1), conection module (2) Sensors infrared proximity (24), infrared ground (12), camera (1 UXGA), accelerometers (3), gyroscope (3), microphones (4), 2 axis force sensors (connection module) Energy and Autonomy 10Ah Li-Poly batteries, 8 hours autonomy Special Abilities Range and bearing positioning system. Onboard main processor with FPU. Software Linux 2.6, aseba Projects Swarmanoid, Collective SLAM, Animal-robot interaction

Presentation

The marXbot is a modular all-terrain experimentation robot, used in research project to test new concepts that need a robot platform of high complexity. The distinctive attributes of this robot are:

• modularity, in order to adapt it to several research projects
• good sensor capabilities, such as an omnivision camera, sensors to measure range and bearing of other marXbots, rotating distance sensor scanner etc.
• high computational power using an iMX.31 processor
• multi-processor architecture based on a CAN bus

Picture and videos

 

 

The marXbot robot is modular: here a configuration with gripper for building experiments.

 

The marXbot robot is designed for collective experiments: here a diffusion of knowledge experiment within the perplexus project.

 

marXbot exchange automatically its battery

Documentation

Work in progress: MarXbot documentation.

3D model

Work in progress: Blender model of Marxbot. Copyright 2009 Stéphane Magnenat, please send back improvements should you do any.

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