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Renoster Autonomous 4wd exploration robot

Revision 3 (Work In Progress Prototype)

Revision 3 of Renoster is a complete rework of earlier revisions. Several subsystems have been dropped in favor of a single processor model for the low level control and many components have been upgraded.

 

1. System Overview

 

 
Image 1 High level overview Older Revisions

 

2. Power Supply

3. Low level Control

Processor:

WiringIO with FreeRTOS


Image 2 Task overview

Sensors: 

  1. Ocean Server OS5000-S compass
  2. 20 Channel EM406A SIRF III GPS Receiver
  3. Five Ultrasonic Range Finder SRF02

Drivers:

  1. Sabertooth dual 5A Motor Controllers

4. High Level Control 

Beagleboard with RTSControl running a JAUS module for communication.

 

5. Pictures

Older Revisions