RoBoard: the Heart of Robotics

RoBoard, 世界最小最省電的 x86 機器人專用控制板, 它僅有名片大小的體積, 允許被嵌入到各種體形的機器人核心之中.

由於採用了工業等級的 1GHz x86 運算核心及 256MB 記憶體, RoBoard 提供遠超一般微處理機的計算性能與穩定性, 並且允許你在熟悉的 PC 環境上開發各種機器人控制程式, 降低你的機器人程式學習曲線. RoBoard 內建各種機器人需要的 I/O 介面, 如 16~24 軸 PWM 伺服控制輸出, 8 個 A/D 輸入通道, RS-232/RS-485 串列埠, 半雙工/全雙工 TTL 串列埠, I2C 介面, SPI 介面, 3 個 USB 埠, 100Mbps 高速乙太網路介面...等, 使得 RoBoard 可非常容易連接並控制各種機器人伺服馬達或感測裝置.

基於 DMP 專利技術, RoBoard 允許以 Micro SD/SDHC 卡作為硬碟儲存裝置, 可於其上直接安裝 Windows XP 及 Linux 作業系統, 同時解決機器人使用傳統硬碟的體積過大及抗震能力太差等種種問題. English Brief:

The RoBoard is an embedded board for Robotics applications that runs an x86 class processor (Vortex86DX) at 1GHz. The board features PWM interfaces, RS-232, RS-485, TTL COM, A/D ports, SPI/I2C, USB, LAN and comes with 256MB memory and runs off an SD Card that serves as a Hard Drive. It is compatible with KHR, Robonova, Bioloid, Robobuilder and many other robots as it supports almost every standard available in today's Robotics applications. The board is capable of running DOS, Windows XP, Windows CE and any standard x86 Linux distribution. An open source library is available for the various operating systems to interface with all of the board's features.