Resources

Robotic Hardware

  • Pioneer 3-AT flexible all-terrain mobile research robot with a range of sensors and actuators including wheel encoders, sonar range finders, a laser range finder, a pan-tilt-zoom video camera, wheels, and a 6 degrees of freedom arm with a gripper
  • Two stationary Mitsubishi Movemaster robots
  • A host of small wheeled underwater robots developed in house
  • Videre stereo-vision-on-chip combo
  • Two Hokuyo laser range finders
  • Four Lego NXT robots
  • Fourty e-Puck small mobile robots with Linux/WiFi extension boards
  • Six Nao humanoid robots from Aldebaran robotics, 2 academic version and 4 RoboCup version

Supporting Hardware and Infrastructure

  • Two Gypsy VI Motion Capture Systems
  • A Gypsy VII Motion Capture System
  • A HP rack mounted super-computer cluster having 20 dual core blades used for performing computationally demanding research work on machine learning and high-fidelity robot simulation.
  • One Altera FPGA DSP Development Kit, Stratix II Edition.
  • One 6m by 4m robot pen with video tracking and image projection facilities, including a dedicated Dell Precision T5400 Quad Core, 20GB RAM, Intel E5420 video server and a Prosilica GE 4900C 16-megapixel CCD camera providing 4872×3248 colour images at 3 frames per seconds.
  • One Digital Video Camera Recorder [Model:-DCR-HC62E]
  • A reange of touch sensors including four Flexiforce pressure sensors and two soft membrane potentiometers

Software