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Seekur

Seekur is a holonomic, all-weather, outdoor robot platform for outdoor security, inspection and research. Seekur's unique shape and omni-directional steering allow truly holonomic movement.  This means that it can turn in its own length or even move sideways if blocked from front and behind. 

With 8 -12 hours of run time and four wheel drive and independent suspension and it can cover miles and miles of terrain in a day.

The Seekur robot and all optional equipment has an extended operating temperature rating of at least -20° to 50° C (-4° to 122° F).

A Seekur can be made fully autonomous. Equipped with optional onboard vision processing, wireless communications, dextrous maniupulators, GPS or laser rangefinders it can handle nearly any outdoor task.

The robot base with included Pioneer SDK plus one or more optional onboard PCs can drive controlled by keys, wireless or tethered joystick or software whole-platform velocity control; communicate robot state & control information including (x,y,theta) position estimate, user I/O, and battery charge data; run  programs created with ARIA or other software development environment; simulate offline with the simulator that accompanies each development environment, and more.

With the Laser Mapping and Navigation package, the robot can map warehouses, hangars, lab spaces, and any other indoor space in minutes; Accurately localize within the mapped indoor known space; autonomously navigate by planning and following dynamic paths to goals; and avoid obstacles along the way.

With the Outdoor Navigation package, the robot can also navigate both indoors or outdoors; map indoors and out; Accurately localize within either a mapped indoor known space or outdoors using DGPS data; autonomously plan dynamic paths to goals, avoiding obstacles on the way. 

The Seekur base package includes:

• Seekur base
• Rugged steel suspension
• Weight saving aluminum unibody construction
• 4 wheel omni-directional steering
• 4 wheel drive
• LCD user interface with diagnostic screens and backlight
• High power DC-DC conversion for accessories
• Low-level SeekurOS and configuration tool
• Pioneer SDK software
• Durable 24V nickel-cadmium battery pack
• Charger
• Operations manual
• Bumpers (automatically halt platform motion)
• Emergency shutdown buttons (4)
• Additional accessories and options are available in addition to these standard features.

Technical Specifications

 Download Seekur Datasheet (pdf)

Platform
DIMENSIONS: 1.4 x 1.3 x 1.1m LxWxH)
WEIGHT: 350kg
GROUND CLEARANCE: 180mm
TIRES: 400mm
WHEELBASE: 900mm, TRACK 800mm
BODY: Lightweight aluminum all-weather unibody
IP RATING: 54
TEMPERATURE RATING: –20°C-+50°C operation
ENERGY STORAGE: nickel cadmium
RUN TIME: 7-15 hrs in continuous motion

Navigation & Motion
STEERING & SUSPENSION: 4 wheel omnidirectional steering and steel suspension
with 50mm travel; Ackermann mode also
MAXIMUM SPEED: 1.8m/s [4mph]
TERRAIN: Pavement, grass, snow,  and dirt terrain
SLOPE: 20% grade
TYPES: guarded tele-operation, manual remote or manual direct drive, plus indoor autonomous operation option

Electronics
Onboard  Microcontroller Server
Up to 5 optional programmable PCs  with solid state storage
Expandable user digital and analog I/O on external high speed CANbus
Provision for DGPS, PTZ camera, 2 laser rangefinders, 3 stereocameras
LCD with backlight with diagnostic screens
5/12/24VDC regulated and switched (software-controlled) export power

Additional Options
One or more SICK LMS111 Laser range-finders (with Laser Navigation package)

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
One or more MobileRanger C3D outdoor stereovision systems
Pan/Tilt/Zoom Color camera

Differential GPS (with Outdoor Navigation package)

Up to 5 dual-core extended-temperature computers (with ethernet network switch if more than one)

External power or I/O ports

2.4 GHz WiFi WRAP (router configurable as either Wifi client or access point for laptops)

900MHz radio ethernet bridge

Includes Pioneer SDK

ARIA API software library, open source under GPL

Mapper3 indoor mapping software
MobileEyes remote GUI for control and visualization

MobileSim open source simulator

Additional Software Options

ARNL software library (with Laser Mapping & Navigation package)

MOGS software library (with GPS Outdoor Navigation package)

Warranty
1 year included; 3 year optional

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