RANGER
Inertia Labs has once again partnered with Surveyor
Corp to produce
the RANGER mobility base for the SRV electronics package.
This is the largest of our open source SRV robot family and is designed for outdoor use.
This base uses two high quality right angle gear motorsto drive the large treads. The treaded chassis are built through a partnership with The Machine Lab.
The Ranger can be configured with a GPS nav board, single stationary camera, or a tilt head camera all inside the chassis.
Questions or comments please contact zander@inertia-labs.com
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Ranger SRV
Complete Ranger SRV: Inertia Labs has partnered with Surveyor
Corp and The Machine Lab to produce
the Ranger mobility base with integrated SRV electronics package. This makes the Machine Labs MMP40 style chassis into a truly autonomous outdoor robot that can navigate by GPS, compass, and tilt sensors.
This is the largest of our open source SRV robot family and is designed for rugged outdoor use.
This base uses two high quality angle gear motors to drive the large treads that are supported by 6 wheels.
The Ranger can be configured with a GPS nav board, single stationary camera, or a tilt head camera all tucked neatly inside the chassis.
- Drawing with dimensions
- Video of similar design (This was slightly larger custom build for an aerospace client. The Renegade is based on that development but has a slightly different tread support and internal configuration to bring down the price. You can expect similar performance to that seen in the video.)
- Software Features
- Open Source design with full access to source code (GPL) and
schematics
- Robot is fully programmable for autonomous operation
- Extensive software
support through 3rd party applications
- Teleoperate mode to drive robot
around via console software or remotely via web browser
- Host software
has built-in web server and video archiving
- Robot can run programs
written in interpreted C and stored in onboard Flash
- Wireless remote
control or viewing up to 100m indoors and 1000m outdoors (line of
sight)
- Robot can be controlled from a terminal/console for easy testing
- Linux
2.6 support as well as "bare metal" programming
with GNU bfin-elf-gcc
- More details on SRV electronics
- Electronic Setup Instructions
- The base Renegade Chassis comes assembled with:
- Aluminum chassis
- Two Lasers
- LiPo battery
- LiPo battery charger
- 2 right angle gear motors
- Dimension Sabertooth peed controller
- Black Rubber Treads
- Electronics Options
- SRV Blackfin with stationary camera
- SRV Blackfin with tilt camera, and breakout board
*Please note that Ranger Robots are build to order and may take up to six weeks to ship depending on your configuration.
SRV Navigation Board
SRV Navigation Board GPS + compass + tilt + 8-channel A/D board includes uBlox5 GPS and new 3-axis Honeywell HMC5843 compass, ST LIS3LV02DQ 3-axis accelerometer and Analog Devices AD7998 8-channel 12-bit A/D. I2C interfaces are provided to all onboard devices, plus uBlox5 GPS supports UART and a time pulse. This can be wired easily to the signal breakout board with 4 wires. We have also made a set of plastic clips that attach this above the camera board. You can add these to your order below.
1.25" x 2.25" (35mm x 60mm), 0.7oz (20gm)
Mounting holes on 1" x 2" centers
Setup details - www.surveyor.com/blackfin/NavBoard.txt
Schematic - www.surveyor.com/blackfin/NavBoard.pdf
RoboRealm CD
Robofile scripts and the software on the RoboRealm CD can allow cool functionality out of the box, such as light following or chasing a red ball. You can use several pre-written scripts as examples of what can be done and as a starting point for your own projects.
Note that RoboRealm runs on your PC and communicates to the SRV over the 802.11 wireless protocol. This means that you will see what the SRV sees on your PC screen.
* Note that this price is only available when bundled with one of our SRV based robots.
SRV Signal Breakout Board
SRV Signal Breakout Boards are expansion boards for the SRV that provide access to all of the signals on the SRV's S-32 expansion header. Extended header pins allow board stacking.
Ideal for adding sensors to the SRV-1 Blackfin Camera + Wifi or SRV-1 Blackfin Robot.
We use this board and add a 5v regulator to run external servos, connect the Nav Board, or wire out to external speed controllers. This diagram (PDF) shows wiring for these uses.
* Note that for SRVs made after October 09 with the two piece plastic front we have a special front piece that fits this. You can add this to your order here. For earlier ones you will need to modify your plastic front.
- Breakout board #1 $24.00 (pictured above)
- Breakout board #2 $50.00 (picture)
- Includes 3.3v 1A voltage regulator and header for battery power.
SRV-1 RCM Expansion Board
The SRV-1 RCM is an expansion board for the SRV Blackfin that supports 20 servos, 16 12-bit analog input channels, 16 GPIO signals, additional I2C and SPI expansion channels, and a micro-SD memory card slot. Voltage level converters provide support for 5V devices, and an external 5V supply can be added to drive large numbers of servos.
• picture of bottom
• picture with camera module mounted (camera not incl)
Detailed description is found here -
* robot journal #210
* robot journal #221
Questions or comments please contact zander@inertia-labs.com
