Rino il robottino
After the experience with Dino I decided to start developing a new, more complex, robot useful for different categories of robotic contests. This one is composed by different, specialized boards, each one with its own task, managed by a "main" board that decides the behavior of the robot.
The descriptions will be specialized as well on each part of the system and they will be added time by time, as soon other boards will be developed.

This project, still in an early stage, participated in:
Circuit Cellar / Microchip 16 bit Embedded Control Design Contest "Put Your Creativity to the Test"
obtaining a distinctive exellence award: WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

This project was described in a two article series on Circuit Cellar magazine in March and April 2009 issues. Articles replicated also on a chinese specialized site: Part 1 and Part 2.
Mechanics
Basic platform A step by step description on how to realize in a simple way a professional looking, multi-use robotic platform
Bumpers
Hardware Software
dsNavCon
Firmware
the susbsystem that takes care of the movements of the robot
dsPID
Block Diagram
dsODO
dsNavCon Board
Odometry
Power Supply
Architecture
H-Bridge
Remote Console
Remote Console evolution
Remote Console more evolutions
dsNavCon33
the evolution using a new version of dsPIC
More on dsNavCon33 Latest versions
Robot evolutions
a gallery of the time by time evolutions for Rino
dsNav communication
Sensor Board
The senses of the robot
Sense of Smell
Protocol Description
Sense of Sight
Tx - Rx examples
Sense of Touch
Commands Descr: Service
Sense of Hearing
Commands Descr: Nav. Settings
Commands Descr: Nav. Read
Sense of Direction
Commands Descr: Const. Settings
Sense of Taste
Commands Descr: Sensors
Software
Console Commands: Main
Console Commands: Config
Console Commands: Sequencer
Console Commands: Details
Various
UMBmark Performing tests to calibrate odometry
Robo Tolomeo Cup
competition
RTC
updated on 06-04-2010
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