PC’s & Sensors

PC’s & Sensors#

The robot comes with a battery and 2 embedded PC’s (control and multimedia) located at the torso.

The user panel provides connectivity to the embedded system exposing:

  • USB-C 3.2 from Multimedia PC

  • USB-C 3.2 from Control PC

  • USB type A 3.0 from Control PC (joystick)

  • Ethernet port to connect to internal robot LAN

User Panel The Kangaroo robot comes with a total of 4 high resolution RGB-D Cameras of the Intel RealSense D435i series. These are mounted in front of the robot and on the back. These cameras are connected to the robot multimedia PC and the obtained Field of View (FoV) of the robot with this is shown below.

FoV

IMPORTANT

There are two hooks tattached to the top structure of the torso to hang the robot. The robot should always be attached to a crane, as in particular the emergency button of the robot removes all power of the motors and hence the robot falls.