Technical Details
Advanced Sensor Fusion For Localization and Navigation:
Indoor “GPS” in the Paired Beacons configuration for Location & Direction + Intel RealSense + Odometer + IMU
Obstacle Detection and Avoidance:
12 x LIDARs 1D
Intel RealSense 3D LIDAR
2 x Sonars
Current sensing
Sensors:
Marvelmind Indoor “GPS”
12 x 1D LIDARs
Intel Realsense (3D stereo + 3D LIDAR)
Up-facing camera
Several IMUs
Odometer for each wheel
Marvelmind sonars
Current sensing
Magnetometer/compass from the Android phone
Regular GPS from the Android phone
Processors:
Raspberry Pi Zero W with Linux supported and MicroSD for multiple Gb
Several Marvelmind boards for very fast real real-time
2 x Marvelmind Super-Beacons for Indoor “GPS” and sonar
APIs:
API is available on the low level (Odometer board, etc.) and the high-level – Raspberry, ROS, Android
The majority of internal functions and sensory information are available and can be made available through the APIs
Chassis and Kinematics:
Very rigid – 2mm steel
Up to 10kg payload
Two-wheel drive with front and back castor wheels. Capable of turning around on one point
There are mounting holes for most common boards:
Several flavors of Raspberry Pi
Jetson Nano
Arduino
30×30 pattern 3mm holes
Battery and Chargers:
12V-battery with different internal capacities from 40Wh to 100Wh
Default 1A charger and optional 5A (10A) fast charger
Optional external batteries
Current and voltage sensing (also available via API)
External Interfaces:
6 x USB
40pins of Pi Zero – standard interface
40 pins from our Odometer board:
UART
SPI
I2C
USB
+12V & 1A and +5V & 1A to power your external devices
GND switch
HDMI (Raspberry Pi connected)
Stereo sound
Buzzer
LED (top and 2 x front) for interfacing, debugging, and lighting
2 x programmable Functional Buttons and a Reset button
Wireless Connectivity:
Marvelmind radio in the license-free band (868 or 915MHz)
WiFi from Raspberry Pi and the Android phone
Bluetooth from Raspberry Pi and the Android phone
2G/3G/LTE from the Android phone
Optical Sensors:
RealSense – 3D stereo obstacles and positioning
RealSense – 3D LIDAR for obstacles
Up-facing camera connected with Pi
Up facing camera of the Android phone