Pioneer 3™ Pioneer 2™ H8- Series Operations Manual
Pioneer 3™ Pioneer 2™ H8- Series Operations Manual
Pioneer 3™ Pioneer 2™ H8- Series Operations Manual
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What is <strong>Pioneer</strong>?<br />
Besides expanded user-power connectors and connections for ease and versatility of<br />
use, the new board supplies three to four times the motor power than the original <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
2 board. Accordingly, the <strong>Pioneer</strong> 3 and 2-Plus platforms operate more robustly over<br />
rougher terrain (fewer stalls!) and carry significantly more payload when compared with<br />
their predecessors. And because of the power improvements, the <strong>Pioneer</strong> 3-AT and 2-<br />
AT8 Plus now come with a lower motor-gearhead reduction for faster speeds, even with<br />
much-improved turning power.<br />
CLIENT SOFTWARE<br />
All ActivMedia robots operate as the server in a client-server environment: Their<br />
controllers handle the low-level details of mobile robotics, including maintaining the<br />
platform’s drive speed and heading over uneven terrain, acquiring sensor readings, such<br />
as the sonar, and managing attached accessories like the Gripper. To complete the<br />
client-server architecture, ActivMedia robots require a client connection: software<br />
running on a computer connected with the robot’s controller via the HOST serial link and<br />
which provides the high-level, intelligent robot controls, including obstacle avoidance,<br />
path planning, features recognition, localization, gradient navigation, and so on.<br />
An important benefit of ActivMedia Robotics’ client-server architecture is that different<br />
robot servers can be run using the same high-level client. For example, we provide a<br />
robot simulator that runs on the host machine that can look and act just like your real<br />
robot. With the Simulator, you may conveniently perfect your application software, then<br />
run it without modification on any ActivMedia robot. Several clients also may share<br />
responsibility for controlling a single mobile server, which permits experimentation in<br />
distributed communication, planning, and control.<br />
Currently available client software and development environments for the Microsoft<br />
Windows or Red Hat© Linux-based computing platform of your choice include: 3<br />
ActivMedia Robotics Basic Suite with WorldLink Internet surveillance and control<br />
ActivMedia Robotics Interface for Applications (ARIA)<br />
SRIsim ActivMedia robot simulator<br />
SRI’s Saphira client-development suite with Colbert<br />
Versions and updates for supported computing platforms are available to passwordregistered<br />
customers for download from our software website:<br />
http://robots.activmedia.com<br />
ActivMedia Robotics Basic Suite<br />
To better support our customers, ActivMedia<br />
Robotics software designers have blended and<br />
refined the best of advanced mobile robotics<br />
software found in the many development<br />
environments into a suite of state-of-the-art<br />
software tools and applications. We call this suite<br />
ActivMedia Robotics Basic Suite, and it includes<br />
the following five modules plus a robot simulator:<br />
NAVIGATOR is the crown jewel—a sophisticated<br />
graphical-user control module with which you<br />
access your ActivMedia robot’s many intelligent<br />
capabilities, from guarded teleoperation to selfguided<br />
navigation along a planned path to a<br />
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Figure 3. Navigator and<br />
WorldPass guide the robot to a<br />
goal with a click of the mouse.<br />
3 Some software may come bundled with your robot. Other packages require purchase for licensing. Some<br />
software also are available for alternative operating systems, such as Macintosh, SunOS, Solaris, and BSD Unix.
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