EyeBot

A/Prof Thomas Bräunl, The Univ. of Western Australia

EyeBot is a controller for mobile robots with wheels, walking robots or flying robots. It consists of a powerful 32-Bit microcontroller board with a graphics display and a digital grayscale or color camera. The camera is directly connected to the robot board (no frame grabber). This allows to write powerful robot control programs without a big and heavy computer system and without having to sacrifice vision - the most important sensor.

This is the documentation for the new EyeBot MK3. Click here for older EyeBot-2 documentation.

Features

Ideal basis for programming of real time image processing
Integrated digital camera (grayscale or color)
Large graphics display (LCD)
Can be extended with own mechanics and sensors to full mobile robot
Programmed from IBM-PC or Unix workstation,
programs are downloaded via serial line (RS-232) into RAM or Flash-ROM
Programming in C or assembly language
Full list of features

Distribution of EyeBot Hardware

Europe: Joker Robotics, Germany, www.joker-robotics.com
Australia / Asia: Robot OZ, Australia. www.robotoz.com.au
Rest of world: Please contact Thomas Bräunl
We are looking for distributors world wide.

Cooperation Partners

Software

Download software from archive (ftp.ee.uwa.edu.au/users/braunl/eyebot)
Upload software (ftp://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/incoming) plus email to braunl@ee.uwa.edu.au

Contact

Thomas Bräunl, The Univ. of Western Australia
Dep. of Electric&Electronic Eng., Nedlands, Perth, WA 6907, Australia
fax: +61 8 9380-1168, email: braunl@ee.uwa.edu.au

Thomas Bräunl, braunl@ee.uwa.edu.au