Millions of dollars, isolated into the development of small pilotless land transportation means by American servicemen, bring their fruits. The company of iRobot represented updated the model of its robot- field engineer - PackBot 510.
At present throughout the world work already about 800 PackBot- OV, carrying out the work, fraught with risk for the life of living people.
Updated model obtained another chassis that its maneuverability will allow it to climb on the stairs, to move through the small obstacles, will increase, the speed of movement will increase.
Is optimized manipulator of robot, now making possible to raise loads by weight to 13,5 kg.
The built-in camera of observation now became colored and has viewing angle into 220°. In the number of its other characteristics of 312x (if we believe to data of producer) zoom, auto-focus, stabilization system, the possibility to work under conditions of low illumination.
Besides it into the composition of robot enters another number of cameras, which help to its movement, to the work of manipulator, etc.
Developers now give the possibility doubly (to 4-24 hours depending on load) to increase the resource of independence of their solution with the aid of the additional storage battery.
The administration Of packBot 510 became even more intuitive - it is achieved with the aid of the colored display and game pad, similar to those, which are well familiar to the amateurs of games on PC and consoles. The radio signal at the frequency of 2,4 GHz is used for the connection of the control panel and robot. Distance of connection - to the kilometer in the line-of-sight ranges.
In PackBot 510 are used some components, traditional for many computers: processor pentium M, 128 mb. memory SDRAM, interface CF, PCMCIA.
The overall sizes Of packBot 510 (maximum) are 88 X 52 X 19 cm , weight - 19,2 kg. the maximum speed of movement for robot is 2,6 m/s.