QBot 2 for QUARC

High-performance, open-architecture mobile ground robot

Highlights

  • Affordable, autonomous ground robot used for education
  • Open-architecture and customizable platform for research purposes
  • Courseware for teaching robotics and mechatronics
  • Wide range of sensors including Kinect RGBD
  • Fully compatible with MATLAB and Simulink

Description

The Quanser QBot 2 for QUARC® is an open-architecture, autonomous ground robot equipped with built-in sensors and vision systems. The QBot 2 is ideally suited for teaching undergraduate and advanced robotics and mechatronics courses, as it includes extensive courseware. Researchers can add off-the-shelf sensors to customize the QBot 2.

The QBot 2’s built-in sensors and Kinect® vision system make it an ideal platform for exploring areas such as vehicle navigation and control, autonomous vehicles, and machine and artificial vision. The open-architecture design allows users to add off-the-shelf digital and analog sensors supported by Quanser's QUARC control software. This allows users to expand research into areas such as vehicle navigation and control and autonomous vehicle control. The QBot 2 can also be used in advanced multi-agent missions involving other QBot 2 or previous generation QBot units, QBall unmanned aerial vehicles, or third-party autonomous vehicles. Researchers can explore areas such as collaborative control, adaptive control, fault-tolerant control, sensor fusion, and fleet maintenance.

The core development platform on the QBot 2 embedded remote target is MATLAB® and Simulink® with QUARC. Users develop controllers in Simulink using QUARC on the host computer, and then the controllers are cross-compiled and downloaded to the target (Gumstix). Through this interface, users can access the QBot 2 through four different blocksets: the Quanser HIL blockset to read from sensors or write to outputs, the Quanser Stream API blockset to perform communications over wired and wireless communication channels, the Quanser Multimedia blockset to read RGB and depth image data from the Kinect sensor, and Computer Vision Toolbox™ to perform image processing.

The QBot 2 also comes with Quanser-developed courseware, including laboratory exercises and predesigned controllers. The courseware covers topics taught in undergraduate and graduate robotics and mechatronics courses such as differential and inverse kinematics, odometric and probabilistic map-based localization, and path planning, mapping, and vision-guided control.

Quanser Inc

119 Spy Court
Markham, Ontario L3R 5H6
CANADA
Tel: 905-940-3575
Fax: 905-940-3576
info@quanser.com
https://www.quanser.com

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Platforms

  • Windows

Support

  • Consulting
  • E-mail
  • On-site assistance
  • Telephone
  • Training

Product Type

  • Lab Experiments
  • Robotics Systems

Tasks

  • Control Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Embedded Systems
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Mechatronics and Robotics

Industries

  • Aerospace and Defense
  • Industrial Automation and Machinery
  • Technical Service Provider