CoroWare, a company specializing in open mobile robotics platforms, has declared new hardware options and software upgrades for the CoroBot Explorer and CoroBot Classic products. The new capabilities provides educators, researchers and engineers the ability to quickly develop robust and self-sufficient unmanned ground vehicle applications.
The software upgrades comprise complete Robotic Operating System compatibility and an enhanced teleoperation application. The Robotic Operating System is a framework for producing robotic applications. All mobile robots from CoroWare are compatible with the Robotic Operating System, The CoroBot products have a teleoperation application, which enables users to remotely control the robot and see output from the sensors and cameras over the Internet or private network.
CoroWare’s robotics product marketing engineer, Andrew Zager stated that educators and researchers can now access a wide range of open source robotic applications like navigation, mapping and image recognition.
In addition, the company is providing new hardware choices to improve the abilities of the CoroBot products. The Microsoft Kinect can be added to any CoroBot, either pre-installed with Robotic Operating System or upgraded to support Robotic Operating System. The Microsoft Kinect provides depth perception and infrared imaging to produce real-time 3D maps. Moreover, the stock CoroBot camera has been enhanced to support 1080p full high-definition video quality.
The company, keeping the needs of researchers in mind, provides the choice of ordering Lithium Ferrous Phosphate batteries that offer higher power density, higher performance and faster charge rates than standard unmanned vehicle batteries.
Source: http://www.coroware.com