Khepera mobile robot
The Khepera is a small differential wheeled mobile robot that was developed at the LAMI laboratory of Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud at EPFL in the mid '90s. It was developed by , Francesco Mondada, André Guignard and others.
Small, fast, and architectured around a Motorola 68331, it has served researchers for 10 years, widely used by over 500 universities worldwide.Scientific impact
The Khepera was sold to a thousand research labs and featured on the cover of the issue of Nature. It appeared again in a 2003 article .
A Google scholar search with khepera mobile robots returns 4800 hits . The Khepera helped in the emergence of evolutionary robotics .Technical details
Original version
Several extension turrets exist for the Khepera, including:
- Gripper
- 1D or 2D camera, wire or wireless
- Radio emitter/receiver, low and high speed
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