Hand-bots
The hand-bot is a fully new concept of robot able to both climb vertical
surfaces and manipulate objects.
Our design is based on the following features:
- Vertical mobility aid using a rope launched by the robot to attach to
the ceiling.
- Two grippers for aid to the mobility and object manipulation.
- Otherwise the technology (processors, camera, most sensors) is shared
with foot-bots and eye-bots.
Detailed design view:
Picture of the actual prototype:
The rope launcher is now functional, as show in the video below.
The footbot can now dock with the handbot, as shown below.
Eye-bots
The Eye-bot is based on a Quadrotor configuration.
Prototype Features:
- Robust, light weight, easy to manufacture body
- Jigsaw-like printed circuit board assembly
- Four powerful and efficient brushless motors
- High speed (500Hz) motor controllers
- Endurance of 15min (2100mAh LIPO)
- Simple collision protection system for indoors
- Ceiling attachment device (extend mission endurance, acquire birds eye view of environment & stabilise camera system)
- Same CPU as the foot-bot
Sensing Abilities:
- Custom 360° pan-tilt camera system
- Obstacle detection
- Optical 360° environment distance scanner
- Relative positioning sensor for swarm coordination
- Custom 6-Degree of freedom inertial sensing
- Sonar and differential pressure sensors for altitude determination
- Magnetometer for heading determination
