RoboCar Platform for Car Robotics Research

Robotics has always been a field of great interest for researchers and scientists all over the world. ZMP have announced the release of RoboCar, a platform for the research and development of Car Robotics. The RoboCar has been equipped with plenty of nice features listed below.

Features:

• The platform is a 1/10-scale car robot.
• Weighs about 3kg.
• Main body is equipped with CCD stereo cameras, an image recognition module that employs the IMAPCAR image recognition chip manufactured by NEC Corp.
• WiFi communication module.
• A gyro sensor.
• Three-axis acceleration sensor.
• Five rotary encoders mounted on the motor & the four wheels and eight infrared range sensors.
• Controlled by the Linux operating system.
• It also includes wireless LAN capability.
• Information obtained through sensors on the car robot can be collected in a PC to be shared by multiple robot cars.
• The robot can also be remote-controlled and run autonomously by using the built-in image processing & CPU boards.

ZMP will begin shipments at the end of June, aiming to sell 200 units in and outside Japan in the first year.

Via [techon]