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As I've developed mounting for the massive amount of electronics I want to pack into this little guy, I've made some additions / modifications. No, I'm not done, not by a long shot.

The Cameras will be mounted front/back (right/left in the CAD depiction below) low on the robot for object identification. The lasers for the range finder will be mounted down at the same levels. The new upper section houses an LCD display screen along with a mounting box for the inverter and fan assembly.

And below, a depiction of the four primary PCB's as they lay into the model above. Scroll back and forth between the two images and see if you can picture how these two fit together.

Depicted below, the bottom side components involved with aiming the stereo vision system. Two the left side of the image are two video cameras. directly underneath this mounts 2 lasers w/field generator optics, 4x white LED's and 4x infra-red LED's. These components mount to a pair of pivoting sensor array plates. These sensor array are driven from the back side of the robot through a pair of push rods connected to some micro-servos. The push rods traverse the robot underneath the assembly about 1/4" above the ground.

Need some help visualizing this one? Let me send you back to this photo for a moment...

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... An intermediate design ...

The robot has gone through a few design changes which can be seen below. Okay, possibly an understatment to say a few design changes there has been a pretty significant design change. The first image below is the side view of the robot. Here the reader can still see many of the common components shared with the original design. This way the number of components that have to be remanufactured will be kept to a minimum.

The next image (below) shows the top down view. This depicts the oposite side staggering which will lend itself to easily ballancing the loading on the bot.

The final image (below) shows the front view of the robot. Currently not visible are the laser for the range finder and the PCB's for all of the processing & senseing. I've also not drawin in many of the infra red cameras, sonar modules or video systems. That will follow as the design progresses at an accelerated pace.

Below, check out the finer details of the contact pad on the bottom of the swing arm. This pad is designed to allow the skid to move easily in every direction.

... Legacy CAD ...

This file has changed a bit since the starting of the project. it can be downloaded in the files area.

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