Khepera II

Radio Modules

Radio Turret


Can only be used with other turrets or the radio base.

Features

  • Radio communication with up to 32 robots
  • Direct robot addressing
  • Error detection and correction
  • Can be used as supplementary communications channel, or as main SerCom channel
  • Can communicate with a host computer (using radio base)

New Possibilities in Autonomous Robotics

  • Long range inter-robot communication
  • Wireless monitoring of robot activities
  • Monitor collective behavior

Software Environments

  • LabVIEW® modules (on PC, MAC or SUN)
  • LabVIEW@reg; is a trademark of National instruments
  • GNU C cross-compiler

Radio Base Specifications

Elements

Technical Information

Speed (real throughput)


up to 9600bps depending on the size of the messages (4800bps typical)

Frequency


418 MHz or 433,920 MHz

Range


10m

Maximum number of robots


32

On-board processor


Motorola M68331

RAM


32 Kbytes

ROM


128 Kbytes

Size


55 x 55 x 15 mm

User Manual