Rover is largely an experimental motion base and test platform for camera,
control data acquisition and a few other ideas we wanted to play with. It was
made up mostly from parts we cannibalized from Cannibot (the one entry into
BattleBots - what a waste!).
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Rover Rear View
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Rover Side
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Rover Front
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Secondary Control Computer
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Switching Relay box and wiring posts.
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Larger view of innards
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IF Command and Control computer with 2way data radio
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2.4GHz camera and transmitter mounted on shield.
This was the first camera configuration. It did not work well because of the directional natire of the mini panel antenna. I switched to a home.manufactured omni on a spring. The range of the rover did not improve substansally but the directional degradation of signal loss was reduced. |
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Move wiring
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Left Motor Speed controller
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Video IO kludge - the fix is on the way.
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Secondary computer LED output.
This is simply a BSX-2 computer in a box. It is used to handle some command activity for static operations like battery monitoring and charging. It also handles data acquisition for the video system to create display data. |
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Side view
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Antenna
This is the ground plane for the new omni antenna. |
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Here is the camera and headlight stack, they rotete on a vertical axis 180 deg Left and Right.
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Motor Speed controller
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Relay board
This is a series addressed board which provides for all of the onboard switching like turning on lights, pumps and switching charging functions. |
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Charging Relay
The system is 24vdc created by two series wired 12v batteries. Recaerging them individually with one charger required some polarity shifts to change batteries. This relay does that. The two big binding posts are the imput for the charger. |
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Image from front camera.
This is an image from robot view |
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