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Fri, 23 Apr 2010
"NAMO" - Mascot robot for Institute for Field Robotics with SRV-1 Blackfin
"NAMO" was built as a mascot robot for The Institute of FIeld roBOtics at KMUTT (FIBO) in Thailand. It sports a three-wheel omni-directional wheel system, two arms, and an SRV-1 Blackfin camera vision system.



More information is found here. Thanks to John Palmisano of Society of Robots for telling us about this project.

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Wed, 21 Apr 2010
SRV-1q Mod for Surveillance
One of our robot users at University of Malaga has developed a very nice mod of the SRV-1q robot to support surveillance applications.



The casing which is positioned by tilt servo is made of PVC. The electronics have been inverted, as seen here:



A full description of the mod is found here.. Translation for the description from Spanish to English is found here.

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Thu, 01 Apr 2010
Surveyor programming interfaces (API's)

There are several control options for the SRV-1 / SVS, and it isn't always obvious what approach might be best. Here's a summary:
  • SRV_protocol: this is the control interface we have provided since the earliest of our SRV-1 robots, and while we continue to add new functions, the core functionality remains the same - mainly ASCII-based commands to access motors, sensors, on-board processing, and system configuration. Through this interface, we directly support four different console programs as well as a variety of third-party and user-developed consoles:

  • SRV HTTP: this uses the browser as the robot control console, and generally works with smart phones as well as full-sized computers. Almost all of the functions accessed via SRV_protocol are available through the HTTP interface.

  • picoC: this is the onboard C-interpreter that enables programming the SRV-1/SVS for fully autonomous behaviors. Most of the SRV_protocol functions are available under program control with ANSI-C syntax.
There is another option of extending the firmware functionality by modifying source code. The firmware is hosted as an open-source Google Code project - http://code.google.com/p/surveyor-srv1-firmware/, with compiler toolchains found on our website - see http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/#blackfin4.

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