Curl is a small mobile robot designed to implement simple autonomous obstacle avoidance behaviors and to be easily expandable. It is cylindrical, 5 inches diameter, 6 inches tall, and weighs 2 lbs. It is powered by a rechargeable battery and driven by two DC motors. It has infrared and sonar navigational sensors and is controlled by three networked microcontrollers. Curl is named for the sport: round, boring, and usually doesn't go where you wanted it to.
As of 2010-04-03 this project is a work-in-progress; the initial hardware is nearly complete but there is much code to be written.
There's much more info on its website; I'm not going to copy it all here.
navigate, avoid obstacles
- Actuators / output devices: 2 Maxon servo motors
- CPU: Atmel AVR mega644 (2x), mega1284 (1x)
- Power source: 9.6v 2200 mAh NiMH
- Programming language: C
- Sensors / input devices: Sharp IR, sonar
- Target environment: indoor
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/curl