Old Products
These products below are not sold anymore and usually not supported anymore. But information is still available (user's manual, tools, software).
K-Junior version 1
The K-Junior is the perfect robot to discover deeply the robotics. It comes with many features and sensors allowing you to be comfortable with today's robotic. This is the first version.
KoreMotor
The KoreMotor controler board can be used as a KoreBot extension or as a standalone module that is able to control four DC motors. It provides an open loop interface or PID algorithm control with several complementary features such as current limitation, software position limits and internal commands generator.
The KoreMotor can receive commands from a serial RS232 link, an I2C bus or a KNet connection from a Koala or a KoreBot.
User Manual
Korebot
At the size of a credit card, KoreBot is a powerful embedded platform based on with an XScale processor and Linux OS.
User Manual
Software
KorebotLE
KoreBotLE is the Light Edition of the Korebot.
User Manual
Software
KorebotSound
Also named as KoreAudio, the KoreSound board is a KoreBot extension that provides audio playback and recording capabilities.
It offers one audio stereo output and two audio stereo inputs.
User Manual
Software
CMU Cam
The well known camera from the CMU university for the Khepera.
Features
- Color Matrix Vision Sensor (176x255 pixels)
- Color blobs tracking
- Motion tracking with frame differences
- Mean color and variance data
- Color histograms
- Dump all or part of the raw image to Khepera memory
New Experimental Possibilities
- Landmark recognition
- Visual stimuli classification
- Onboard image processing
The new Khepera CMUcam turret is based on the famous CMUcam2 module form Carnegie Mellon University. It provides embedded image processing functions for the Khepera robot and allow to download part of the image to the robot for user specific processing.
The turret is however not designed to allow the complete image download to a remote PC for image processing on a computer. Remote image processing should be performed using a K2D vision turret.
With the CMUcam turret, vision based experiments with multiple robot is possible, as each robot can be fully independent without cables and without a remote operation program. All image preprocessing functions are performed on the turret processor to keep the robot main processor free for other tasks.
Please check the CMUcam vision turret user manual for further details about the available features.
CMUcam Vision Turret Specifications
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User Manual
Text to Speech
This interface enables the Hemisson robot to speak fluent English. The on-board speaker will pronounce every word transfered in ASCII code on the Hemisson I2C bus.
(Ref. HemTextToSpeech), 1-year warranty
User Manual
Software
Rotating Contact
This accessory avoid the twisting cable in long experiments. It is placed on the cable between the robot and the RS232 communication module.
BasicStamp 2© Interface
With this module, you can plug a BasicStamp2© module and control the Hemisson from the Basic development environment. You can also connect all the existing BasicStamp2© extension modules. The BasicStamp2© module is not provided.
(Ref. HemBasicStamp), 1-year warranty
User Manual
KoreSound (KoreAudio)
KoreSound (also known as KoreMedia or KoreAudio) can acquire 4 channels single-ended inputs (2x stereo) and can playback 2 channels single-ended outputs (1x Stereo). A KoreBot Linux driver is provided to use the board as a standard Linux sound device, so that any standard Linux application can work with the sound interface in a transparent way.This board does not work standalone: it requires a KB-250 stack including a KoreBot. The KB-250 interface is an open standard interface to expand the functionality of an existing ARM base platform in a easy and fast way. Besides using a full line of off-the-shelf KB-250 modules, developers can also design their own modules. KB-250 modules can be used singularly or stacked together.
Requirements:
- KoreBot II or KoreBotLE
User Manual
Software
- libkorebot sound example
- standalone sound example
- Also see user manual above
PC/104 Extension
Discontinued: replaced with Koa-PicoITX
PC/104 is a standard for PC-compatible circuit board modules that can be stacked together to create an embedded computer system. PC/104 systems are very similar to standard desktop PCs but with a far smaller form factor. These systems can be programmed with the same development tools used with full-size PCs which reduces the need and cost of custom development efforts. A wide variety of third-party modules is available for the PC/104 bus including sound I/O, data acquisition boards, and GPS. More than 200 vendors world-wide supply hardware, software, and engineering services to support the growing PC/104 standard.A custom interface board connects the PC/104 and Koala providing communications and power. Communication between the Koala and the PC/104 is done via the Koala's RS232 serial port, meaning that the front and back serial ports on the Koala can no longer be used.
PC/104 processor boards provided by K-Team have the following features:
- Pentium MMX 266 MHz with 64MB RAM
- Onboard Video Display
- Onboard Ethernet Interface
- EIDE, Floppy, keyboard, mouse and SVGA monitor interface
- PC/104 and PC/104+ extension bus
- Ultra Slim ATA 20Gb disk (2.5")
- Power Converter for Koala
We also provide the following optional extensions:
- Video FrameGrabber (BT 848 chipset)
- Wireless ethernet connection for remote control
- Single or double pan-tilt camera to interface with the onboard frame-grabber
K-Team ships PC/104 modules with Linux pre-installed, but the user is free to install another PC/104 supported operating system such as DOS, Windows (3.1, 95, 98 and NT4.0), QNX, or OS/2.
K-Team is actively promoting Linux as an operating system for autonomous robotics (see the Real Time Linux project). However, development is currently limited by the small number of video capture devices supported under Linux. By supporting linux drivers for video capture cards, K-Team aims at advancing its use in miniature autonomous robotics.
Please see Video for Linux homepage.
PC/104 Interface Specifications
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Power supply |
15W, 5VDC |
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Interface |
PC/104 and PC/104+ Extension |
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Communication |
RS232, up to 56kbps |
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Koala Autonomy |
30 mn to 40 mn according to configuration |
User Manual
High Reflective Paper
This special paper reflects infrared light roughly 1000 times better than white paper.
New Sensor Characteristics
The graph below shows the characteristics of a Khepera sensor facing a small wall covered with this reflective paper. Any other degree of reflectivity between the two displayed curves can be obtained by varying the width of a thin strip of the reflective paper.
Radio Modem Wireless Bluetooth
The Koala robot can be connected to a host computer using a wireless RS232 connection. The Bluetooth modem can be paired with any Bluetooth enabled computer, and up to seven robots can communicate with the same computer using such a configuration. The module price includes mounting, configuration and testing of the modem.
Depending on the device class on the computer side, the communication range is up to 100 meters. The communication device on the computer side is not included with this module.
Radio Modem Interface Specifications
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Transmission speed |
up to 115.2 kbps |
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Interface |
RS232 female DB9 |
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Radio transmission frequency |
2,45GHz |
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Radio transmission |
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum PSK |
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Radio transmission power |
100 mW nominal |
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Range |
~100 m |