# E y e B o t

### 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.

### 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
- Third generation hardware (see previous EyeBot-2)
- Full list of features

### Distribution of EyeBot Hardware

- Europe: AndroTec, Germany, www.eyebot.de
- North America: Zagros Robotics, USA, www.zagrosrobotics.com
- Australia / Asia: Robot OZ, Australia. www.robotoz.com.au
- Rest of world: Joker Robotics, www.joker-robotics.com
- We are looking for distributors world wide.

### Software

- Download software from archive: http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/eyebot/ftp/

### Recommended Literature and Documentation

- Bräunl, Embedded Robotics - Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems, Springer, Berlin, 2003
  The comprehensive EyeBot reference book
- Bräunl et al., Parallel Image Processing, Springer, Berlin, 2001
- Harman, The Motorola MC68332 Microcontroller, Prentice-Hall, 1991
- C and C++ gnu manuals
- Motorola information and freeware