Festo Robotino Mobile Robotic Development Platform

• 3 Robotino drive modules integrated into a stainless steel frame
• Features Infrared distance, Analog inductive and Optical sensors
• Comes with DC industrial motors with optical shaft encoders and a Color web camera
• FPGA (Xilinx Spartan3) for rapid reading of sensor data
• Linux operating system, provided on a 1 GB CF card
• Programming: .Net, C++, C, C# and JAVA / Interface: MatLab and LabView 

The Festo Robotino Mobile Robotic Development Platform has three Robotino drive modules integrated into a stable, laser-welded stainless steel frame. The frame is protected against collisions by a rubber protection strip with integrated switching sensor. Numerous additional components, such as sensors or handling units, can be mounted on a platform with prepared threaded holes.

With its omnidirectional drive, Robotino moves quickly as a flash forward, backward and sideways and also turns on the spot. Three sturdy DC industrial motors with optical shaft encoders with a resolution of 2048 increments per revolution and gear units with a reduction ratio of 1:16 allow speeds of up to 10 km/h. The frame contains nine infrared distance sensors. An analog inductive sensor and two optical sensors are also available, enabling the Robotino to recognize and follow predefined paths that are marked in color or with an aluminum strip.

The Robotino is supplied with a color web camera with jpeg compression. The compressed web camera image can be transmitted to an external PC via the WLAN for image evaluation by Robotino View or used as a live camera image. The Robotino may not be able to find a needle in a haystack, but it can see what's going on around it with a high degree of accuracy. Power is supplied via two 12 V lead-gel rechargeable non-spillable electric storage batteries, permitting a running time of up to two hours. The scope of delivery includes a further set of non-spillable electric storage batteries for even more uninterrupted learning pleasure! The system is automatically shut down when the charge status is too low.