Robotics Kits
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Presentation delivered during the Karel Comenius project meeting, Beypazari, 10 - 16.11.2013
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Robotics Kits
- 1. Robotics Kits Cristina Maria AGAPE , Student Robert Sebastian DRON , Student Mihai AGAPE, Teacher Palatul Copiilor Drobeta Turnu Severin KAREL, Comenius Project Meeting Beypazari, 10 – 16.11.2013
- 2. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
- 3. The Purpose of the Presentation Inform about some of existing kits and for robotics. Present some robots at work
- 4. LEGO® LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3
- 5. LEGO® Price (Mindstorms NXT): 350 EUR Hardware (more than 600 parts) 3 servo motors, 2 touch sensors, 1 ultrasonic proximity sensor, 1 light sensor, 1 sound sensor ARM-based 32-bit microcontroller and supports Bluetooth technology. Programming Language: ROBOLAB C, C++, Java, ROBOTC, Ada, RoboMind, Visual Basic
- 6. Robotics Contests for LEGO® kits FIRST FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) FIRST® Robotic Challenge (FRC®) SuGO (sumo contest)
- 7. VEX® Vex Protobot Starter Robotics Kit Classroom Lab Robotics Kit
- 8. VEX® Protobot starter robotics kit (+ RobotC) Price: 550 EUR Hardware (more than 300 parts) 4 motors, 4 touch sensors (2 types) Microchip PICmicro ® PIC18F8520 microcontroller. Programming Language: RobotC (developed by Carnegie Mellon University)
- 9. iRobot Create® Price: 330 EUR Easily to add electronics Hard to modivy mechanical base Completely reprogrammable
- 10. TETRIX® Educational purposes & FTC® Aluminum structural pieces Interface with Lego Mindstorms NXT
- 11. Parallax Boe-Bot Robotic Kit Board of Education roBot Price: 280 EUR Hardware Aluminium chassis Main circuit board 2 servomotors 1 microcontroller USB & Bluetooth Programming: PBASIC Manual
- 12. Pololu 3pi Price: 85 EUR Suitable for: Line following Maze solving Hardware 5 reflective sensors 1 uC ATmega 328P Programming: C
- 13. K-team Hemisson Price: 350 EUR Hardware Sensors 8 ambient light 6 obstacle detection 2 line detection Output devices 1 buzzer, 4 LEDs 1 PIC16F87 Programming Visual Studio C++ Matlab
- 14. Other robots… ER1 (Evolution Robotics) SRV-1 Blackfin (Surveyor)
- 15. Summary There are a lot of robotics kits in a large range of prices We didn’t find a kit with good performances low cost free curriculum available open source programming language That’s we will build KAREL platform!
- 16. Bibliography http://www.lego.com/en-us/products http://www.usfirst.org/ http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex/products http://www.irobot.com/us/ Htttp://www.tetrixrobotics.com/ http://parallax.com/robots/robots-overview http://www.pololu.com/category/2/robot-kits www.k-team.com/
- 17. Closing and Questions Presented a variety of robotic kits available Experienced demonstrations of various robotics kits
Editor's Notes
- LEGO’s popular Mindstorms NXT kit costs around 350 EUR and is used in a large number of schools. The kit is used also in many robotics competition as is the FIRST LEGO League, in which high school students compete with LEGO robots. The kit has more than 600 parts. It has 3 servo motors, 2 touch sensors, 1 ultrasonic proximity sensor, 1 light sensor, and 1 sound sensor. There are additional sensors (temperature, accelerometer, gyroscope, RFID reader). The kit has an ARM-based 32-bit microcontroller and supports Bluetooth technology. While the Mindstorm NXT can be programmed with LEGO’s graphical language, there are numerous development tools that allow the Mindstorms to also be programmed with C, C++, Visual Basic and Java.
- There are additional sensors (temperature, accelerometer, gyroscope, RFID reader).
- The VEX Robotics Design System, produced by Innovation First Inc. Vex Protobot starter robotics kit with RobotC license contains everything you need to build and program an autonomous robot and cost around 550 EUR. Classroom Lab Robotics Kit, dedicated for classrooms, associations or clubs, contains all the accessories and options to learn about building, programming and controlling a Protobot robot from Vex Robotics and cost around 1000 EUR. The kit includes one licence of RobotC, a programming language with a C syntax. It has been developed by the very famous Carnegie Mellon University. This programming language for robots is complete and comprehensive. It contains a real time debugger, powerful programming structure and is compatible with Bluetooth. To know more, see the RobotC description The processor in the VEX system can be programmed in either EasyC, a graphical C based programming environment produced by Innovation First, Inc., or in C using a standard development environment with the proper proprietary compiler and software library. VEX’s mechanical kit allows for many possible configurations of your robot and for students to construct many different mechanical systems.
- There are additional sensors (temperature, accelerometer, gyroscope, RFID reader).
- The iRobot Create is based upon their popular Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, and costs around 330 EUR. Create platform allows one to easily add electronics and completely reprogram the base. Beginners can observe the robot's behaviour in any of the 10 demonstration modes or program the robot by downloading scripts with any basic terminal program. Advanced users can write custom software using a variety of methods that take advantage of the robot's "streaming sensor data" mode for more control of the robot. And highly advanced users can write programs for completely autonomous behaviour. It is programmable in C, C++, and by Microsoft Robotics Studio. The base is not easy to mechanically modify, however. While additional parts can be attached to the top of the base, the user is limited to how much they can change the base.
- The TETRIX Robotics is a robotic kit by Pitsco, Inc., intended for educational purposes and the FIRST Tech Challenge and costs around 400 EUR. The main structural TETRIX pieces are aircraft-grade aluminum with a trademarked hole pattern that enables connections at multiples of 45°. The pieces are attached using bolts. Other building elements include gears, wheels, motors and servos. TETRIX can interface with the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to allow the NXT intelligent brick to control TETRIX motors and servos. FIRST Tech Challenge robots are built using the TETRIX building system and controlled by Lego Mindstorms NXT.
- The Boe-Bot from Parallax is a small, robust, fast and complete robot, which costs around 280 EUR (version with Bluetooth). It consists of a main circuit board (the Board of Education), 1 microcontroller, 2 servo motors to drive the wheels, a breadboard and an aluminium chassis. Last version includes a USB port (instead of the usual serial port) and also a Bluetooth module. Programs are in PBASIC, a proprietary language. The kit includes a manual which will guide to build the robot step by step.
- The Pololu’s 3pi is a two wheeled robot wich costs around 85 EUR. It was created with the objective of being a robot particularly suitable for line-following and maze solving. That’s why the only sensors are 5 reflective ones on the front edge. The microcontroller is an ATmega 328P (20 Mhz frequency, 32 KB of flash memory, 2 KB RAM and 1KB EEPROM permanent memory). 3pi moves up to 1 m/s. It is programmed in C using open source software.