Autonomous mobile robot yamabico and its ultrasonic range finding module

  • Song, Minho (University of Tsukuba, Inst. Of Information Science and Electronics, Intelligent Robot Laboratory) ;
  • Yuta, Shinichi (University of Tsukuba, Inst. Of Information Science and Electronics, Intelligent Robot Laboratory)
  • Published : 1989.10.01

Abstract

Autonomous mobile robot Yamabico and his newly developed ultrasonic range finding module(URF) are described. Yamabico is a self-contained autonomous robot for in-door environment. It has a modularized architecture, which consists of master module, ultrasonic range finding module, locomotion module, voice synthesizer module and console. Newly developed ultrasonic range finding module has a 68000 processor and Dual-port memory for communication. It controls the ultrasonic transmitters and receivers and calculate the range distances for 12-direction, simultaneously within every 60 milliseconds.

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