QBot 2e

Product Description
High-Performance Autonomous Ground Robot for Indoor Labs
The Quanser QBot 2e is an innovative open-architecture autonomous ground robot, equipped with built-in sensors, and a vision system. Accompanied by extensive courseware, the QBot 2e is ideally suited for teaching undergraduate and advanced robotics and mechatronics courses, surpassing capabilities of hobby-level robotic platforms. The open-architecture control structure allows users to add other off-the-shelf sensors and customize the QBot 2e for their research needs.
Overview
The QBot 2e is built on a two wheel differential drive platform with built-in DC motors and sensors. It utilizes a wireless embedded computer to command motor velocity and measure the onboard sensors including bump, cliff, and RGBD. The embedded system also provides several I/O channels for interfacing additional digital and analog sensors. The integrated RGB camera and depth sensor are capable of capturing RGB image data and 11-bit depth data and transmitting the data at a high frame rate. The QBot 2e operates using a host-target structure. Controllers are developed on the ground station host using QUARC for Simulink®. Real-time code is downloaded from the host to the QBot 2e embedded computer and allows users to run, modify and monitor code remotely from the host. The controllers on-board the QBot 2e are open-architecture and fully modifiable.
Features
– Wide range of sensors included (bump sensor, wheel drop sensor, cliff sensor, 3-axis gyroscope, RGBD sensor)
– Customizable with off-the-shelf sensors supported by QUARC, including digital (SPI, UART, I2C) and analog sensors
– Low power on-board computer with Linux operating system for high-level, real-time decision making and task execution
– Mounting holes
– Adjustable camera
– Easy integration of additional elements of the Quanser Autonomous Vehicle Research Studio
– Curriculum with independent exercises for robotics and mechatronics courses included