Technologies: Anatomy of a BaseBot™
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Top Left: Wifi router connected to two dual core Intel Atom Mini-ITX's
with 1G RAM. The Blue Ethernet cables connect the router to two dual core Intel Atom Mini-ITX's with 1G RAM and a single board computer (SBC) for motor control. Top Center: The power distribution block has separate fusing for each drive motor, computer and the GeckoSIO*. The red SBC shown uses a 40Mhz 8 bit CPU for the GeckoMotorController. At the base you see two shock mounted 80G laptop SATA hard drives. |
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Top Left: Two horizontal, outward and downward Microsoft Kinect depth
cameras with congruent fields of view. Top Right: Wifi router. Power cabling conduits. 53A 50VDC MOSFET H bridge motor driver and right angle drive 12VDC permanent magnet gearmotors. 10" diameter microcelluar polyurethane drive wheels Frame is riveted aluminum for monoque construction. Group 34 battery compartment for up to 80AH battery. |
| Two horizontal, outward and downward Microsoft Kinect depth cameras with congruent fields of view. Power cabling conduits. 53A 50VDC MOSFET H bridge motor driver and right angle drive 12VDC permanent magnet gearmotors. 10" diameter microcelluar polyurethane drive wheels with trailing casters. Frame is riveted aluminum for monoque construction. Group 34 battery compartment for up to 80AH battery. |
*The GeckoSIO (Sensor Input Output) collects and aggregates low level sensor data from a variety of similar and/or disparate sensors such as IR rangefinders, sonar, etc. There are several dozen analog and digital inputs available on the SIO. It is a low level mobile robot sensor controller board.
Further, once appropriate accumulation of sensor data is achieved, it transmits that data via the onboard LAN on ethernet using TCP/IP to the GeckoSuper for common sense distribution to other GeckoSavants such as GeckoNav, etc.