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 color camera
• 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

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

Thomas Bräunl,