Dec 29 2010
Digilent has introduced new series of Robotic Development Kits (RDK) for advanced architecture and applications of robotics. The RDK series encompasses a line-sensor kit, a common kit, and a remote control kit.
Robotic Development Kits
Each of the kits are deployed for performing specific functions and each kit is provided with a separate downloadable package instructions and features a demo project for the easy and speedy installation of a robot. The Basic Robotic Kit has all the essential elements required to set up a simple independent robot. The Line Sensor kit independently follows a series, where the Remote Control Kit helps constructing a cabled remote control robot by means of an Ethernet cable.
Each kit is coupled with the company’s Digilent's Cerebot 32MX4 microcontroller development board featuring a robust steel base and all the wheels, sensors motors, and development software for aligning a robot in a whole. Digilent also has a varied series of peripheral modules (Pmods) to accomplish fundamental experiments to the innovative architecture of the system.
The Cerebot 32MX4 has the Microchip PIC32 microcontrollers. The PIC32 offers a 32-bit MIPS processor core working with 512 kbyte of program FLASH at 80 MHz, 32 kbytes of RAM memory and various peripheral systems, containing a USB regulator and timer/counters. The board is equipped with various I/O interfaces and power supply options, including USB power. Its integrated programming and debug circuit is attuned with the integral Microchip MPLAB development software.