e-puck2

DESCRIPTION

e-puck2 is an Educational-Robots from GCtronic. It is built for Research, Education. Key figures: 0.1 kg, 180 min runtime, price 850 CHF, released 2018.

The e-puck2 is a miniature mobile robot for education and research, version 2 of the e-puck that EPFL introduced in 2005 and that has been used in about 3,000 units. Developed jointly by EPFL and GCtronic and available since January 2018, it keeps the original's 70 mm round shape and mechanics, and stays compatible with most e-puck scenarios and extensions, while adding a far more powerful controller, USB, a time-of-flight distance sensor and WiFi. A 32-bit STM32F407 at 168 MHz with DSP and FPU runs it, with 192 KB of RAM and 1 MB of flash. It senses its surroundings with 8 infrared proximity and ambient-light sensors, a front time-of-flight sensor reaching 2 m, a 3D accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer, 4 digital microphones for sound localisation, a VGA colour camera and an infrared remote-control receiver, and shows its state through red and RGB LEDs, a green body light and a speaker. Two stepper motors drive it at up to about 15.4 cm/s, and a 1,800 mAh Li-ion battery charged over USB gives about 3 hours of autonomy. It connects by USB, Bluetooth, BLE and WiFi, has a micro SD slot and an onboard debugger, and is programmed in C, MicroPython or the Webots simulator.

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