Transparent plastic body supporting PCBs, battery and motorsĨ infra-red sensors measuring ambient light and proximity of objects up to 6 cm Each of these sensors will be studied in detail during the practical investigations later in this book.ĥWh LiION rechargeable and removable battery providing about 3 hours autonomyĭsPIC 30F6014A 60 MHz (~15 MIPS) 16 bit microcontroller with DSP coreĢ stepper motors with a 50:1 reduction gear, resolution: 0.13 mm
The e-puck robot also features a large number of sensors and actuators as depicted on the pictures with devices and described in the table. This feature is very useful in the case of a mobile robot, because extensive signal processing is often needed to extract useful information from the raw values measured by the sensors. It is a micro-controller processor produced by the Microchip company which is able to perform efficient signal processing. The e-puck robot is powered by a dsPIC processor, i.e., a Digital Signal Programmable Integrated Circuit. The e-puck robot has already been used in a wide range of applications, including mobile robotics engineering, real-time programming, embedded systems, signal processing, image processing, sound and image feature extraction, human-machine interaction, inter-robot communication, collective systems, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired robotics, etc. Affordable: the price tag of e-puck is friendly to university budgets.Robustness and maintenance: e-puck resists to student use and is simple to repair.It doesn't need any cable (rely on Bluetooth) and provides optimal working comfort. User friendly: e-puck is small and easy to setup on a table top next to a computer.
#Webots simulation sound software#
Simulation software: e-puck is integrated in the Webots simulation software for easy programming, simulation and remote control of real robot.Flexibility: e-puck covers a wide range of educational activities, offering many possibilities with its sensors, processing power and extensions.Neat Design: the simple mechanical structure, electronics design and software of e-puck is an example of a clean and modern system.The e-puck robot was designed to meet a number of requirements:
You can order your own e-puck robot for about 950 Swiss Francs (CHF) from Cyberbotics Ltd. (Japan) and are available for purchase from various distributors. The e-puck robots are now produced industrially by GCTronic S.à.r.l. Similarly, the e-puck software is fully open source, providing low level access to every electronic device and offering unlimited extension possibilities.
#Webots simulation sound license#
To help the creation of a community inside and outside EPFL, the project is based on an open hardware concept, where all documents are distributed and submitted to a license allowing everyone to use and develop for it. It was intended to be a tool for university education, but is actually also used for research. Francesco Mondada and Michael Bonani in 2006 at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (see Figure). Hopefully, this practical approach will make you understand what robots are and what you can do with them.Į-puck Introduction In the rest of this book, you will use both of them to practice hands-on robotics.
This chapter introduces you to a couple of useful robotics tools: e-puck, a mini mobile robot and Webots, a robotics CAD software.
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