Computer System Design

Spring 2003

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Resources

Commercial robot platforms or kits

• ActivMedia - Pioneer
• ActivMedia - Amigobot
• Parallax - Boebot
• K-Team - Khepera II
• Applied AI - LABO-1
• Arrick - Trilobot
• iRobot - Magellan Pro
• Lynxmotion - Hexapods
• Junun -Mark III
  

Robotics microcontrollers

• Basic Stamp II (PPT tutorial)
• OOPic

Robot/Sensor Networks

• Self-Organizing Sensor Networks
• Tiny InterNet Interface (TINI)
• TinyOS at UC Berkeley
• Smart Dust at UC Berkeley
  
• Robomotes at USC
• Distributed Sensor Networks references at Duke
• Distributed Sensor Networks references at UC Davis
• Millibots at CMU
  

PDA and Bluetooth

• Support for the Palm Bluetooth Card
• Bluetooth modules for use with mobile robots
• Linux PDA

Microphone Arrays

• Robot phonotaxis
• Surface Mount Microphones
• Emkay microphones
  

Accelerometer group

• Inertial propioceptive devices
• Analog Devices -iMEMS accelerometers/gyroscopes
• Micro Gyro-System
  
• MEMSIC -thermal accelerometers
  
• Mobile robot positioning at Michigan
  

Solar-powered robots

• Solar-powered robot at CMU
• Beam Robotics -solarbotics

Odor tracking

• Custom Sensor Solutions -1010 Diluters
• Figaro TGS sensors
• Odor Source Localization at CalTech

Omni-Directional Vision

• The Page of Omni-Directional Vision
• The CMUcam Vision System
• Accowle -omnidirectional mirrors  
• Omnidirectional vision at the Czech T.U. Prague
• Neovision -panoramic vision
  

Miscellaneous sensors

• Pyroelectric IR motion detectors
• RFID tags