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Research Accessories Abound

MobileRobots Inc supplies a vast array of tightly integrated hardware and software accessories for the variety of mobile platforms for research.


Sensing and Autonomous Guidance:

MapperBot

Laser-based Indoors

State-of-the-art indoor mapping and navigation

Seekur Jr, affordable all-weather UGV

mOGS Outdoors

All-weather outdoor mapping and navigation with DGPS

P3DX with SONAR

Sonar

Basic sensing and navigation. See Bases for details.


Advanced Systems:

Preconfigured Robot Systems

Recommended configurations for 2D/3D SLAM; VSLAM; grasping and manipulation; outdoor navigation

Laser Options:


Sick LMS-111 and Hokuyu URG Laser Rangefinders

Additional laser options

SICK LMS-200 or LMS-111 available for Laser Navigation Package with some robot platforms. Now available: Hokuyu URG for extra obstacle avoidance. Inquire for details.

GPS/DGPS Receivers:

GPS options

Available for use with mOGS Outdoor Navigation Package. Optional fixed DGPS base station and radios available for some receivers.


Manipulators:

PowerBot Arm

Manipulators

Manipulator arms and grippers in a range of sizes and capabilities.

3D Sensors:

All-weather outdoor stereocam

MobileRanger C3D

Indoor or Outdoor MobileRanger C3D with FPGA image processor for 3D range sensing

Sweeping pan-tilt laser

Sweeping Pan-Tilt Laser

Sweeping pan-tilt laser with software for 2.5-3D mapping and collision avoidance. Contact for details.


Vision Systems:


Stereo Camera

Indoor stereo camera mounted on a pan-tilt unit with control and processing software

PTZ camera

PTZ Camera

Color pan-tilt-zoom camera plus computer image acquisition interface. Indoor or outdoor cameras available.

Wireless video

Other Cameras

Fixed USB and firewire cameras; 2.4 GHz radio video transmitter; etc.


Embedded Computers

Embedded SBCs

Onboard embedded single-board computers

Networking

Wireless communications

Wireless Ethernet networking and radio communications

Speech & Audio

Audio systems

Stereo audio I/O with speech synthesis and recognition software


Charging Solutions:

Docking

Docking Stations

Automated recharging

Recharging cube

Power Cube

12V, three battery charging station

Hot-swap batteries

Hot-swap Batteries

Extra batteries


Input Devices:

Input devices

Touchscreens

Touchscreens and other input devices. See Bases for details.

Gyros & IMUs

gyro

Heading Correction

Integrated single and multi-axes gyroscopes, IMUs, accelerometers and compasses. Contact for details.

Bumpers

Bumpers

Bumpers switches detect collisions and protect robot. See Bases for details.