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This Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) autonomous mobile robot (called "Scotty"), has been built by COLETEK for teleoperation and autonomous mobile robotics research and development (devkit), for proof of concept purposes.
Scotty comes from humble beginnings - work started in 2006 on a casual basis and completed in 2011.
Scotty has travelled to 4 states of Australia, done many kilometers, demoed a wide range of UGV applications, and hired for a number of events. We have so much unpublished work and videos - we look forward to finding time one day to compile and post.
Scotty was first hired along with our automated quad bike by Freelance Robotics in 2011! It's since been hired by other firms for prototyping such as Mining3 and APAA. It has also be hired for a number of events such as the CONNECT Expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre, and "Build a self driving car in 72 hours?" organised by "The Robotics Club" run by Silicon Valley stars Ben Sand (YC) and Ken Macken (Techstars) and supported by the famous roboticst Prof. Peter Corke, Youtuber Hacksmith, Telstra and Blackbird Ventures to name a few).
Scotty is available for hourly hire (minimum 1 day) for our clients to use. We can provide R&D services to fit any custom equipment you may need to test your concept (aka Scotty Robot Plugin). We also use Scotty for internal R&D use. Scotty fits the bill for rapid prototyping any ground based teleoperation, semi-autonomous or fully autonomous mobile robot solutions one may need. Once the proof of concept is completed, one can redesign a new robot based on lessons learned, to optimize its physical size, power consumption and cost; while ensuring it meets the objectives for its target environment (e.g. underground or an unearthly surfaces).
This R&D can then be applied to many applications such as: military, home land security, space exploration, earthworks trucks, agriculture, mining, traffic control, road construction, waste management, transport, and gardening.
ROS, OpenCV, CUDA capable, but have done the autonomous mobile navigation in many ways, even before ROS, OpenCV, and CUDA was an option.
- Joystick/Monitor Teleoperation - Included for hire
- Outdoor/GPS way point control - Done in many ways since early 2000s
- Indoor/Localisation way point control - Done in many ways since early 2000s
- Obstacle Detection - Done in many ways since early 2000s
- Localisation - Done in many ways since early 2000s
- SLAM - Done in many ways since early 2000s
Performance
- Energy: 5.7MJ/1.6kWh via 6x 12V 22Ah VRLA batteries
- Speed: 9km/h
- Weight: 145kg
- Payload: 200kg (likely more, but not tested as yet)
- Range: 200km (on one charge)
- Max roll angle: 12deg
Dimensions
- Size: 1257(L) x 610(W) x 700(H) mm
- Ground clearance: 114mm
- Tyres diameter: 254mm
- Turning radius: 1334mm
Actuators/Motors
- Locomotion: 2x 24V Brushed DC Motors (3A normal, peak 15A)
- Pan/Tilt Sensor Platform: 2x Stepper Motors
Sensors
- 2x Wheel Encoders
- 44x Sharp IRs (12x left, 12x right, 10x front, 10x back)
- 4x Ultrasonic Sensors
- 1x Stereolabs ZED Stereo Vision Camera
- 1x Xsens MTi-7 IMU+GPS
Controllers
- 1x Sabertooth 2x25 v2 Motor Controller
- 1x 24V to 12V DC-DC Convertor
- 1x 12V to 5V DC-DC Convertor
Communication
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
Computers
- 1x NVIDIA Jetson TX1
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Our experience dates back to the 1990s with ANU "Robotics Systems Lab", CSIRO, NICTA (aka Data61), Seeing Machines, Location Aware Technologies, and Hemisphere GPS (aka BEELINE). For over 10 years now, we've been focused on validating R&D and taking ideas to commercialisation.
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