Khepera mobile robot

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Khepera robot original version
Khepera robot original version

The Khepera is a small (5.5 cm) mobile robot developed at the LAMI laboratory of Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud in EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in the mid '90s. It has been developed by Edo. Franzi, Francesco Mondada, André Guignard and others.

Small, fast, architectured around a Motorola 68331, it served the research for 10 years, widely used by over 500 universities worldwide. It is now outdated, even with its upgraded processor and flash in version 2.0.

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[edit] Scientific impact

The Khepera was sold to a thousand of research labs and hold the cover of Nature in its issue of August 31th, 2000, linked with the article of Michael J. B. Krieger, Jean-Bernard Billeter and Laurent Keller.

[edit] Technical details

[edit] Original version

[edit] 2.0 Version

  • Motorola 68331 CPU @ 25 MHz
  • 512 KB RAM
  • 512 KB Flash
  • Improved batteries and sensors

[edit] Extensions

Several extension turrets exist for the Khepera, including:

  • Gripper
  • 1D or 2D camera, wire or wireless
  • Radio emitter/receiver, low and high speed
  • I/0

[edit] External link

  • Homepage - K-team, the company which sells Khepera

[edit] References