Nomad 200

The Nomad 200 or N200^[1] was a commercial research robot manufactured in the 1990s by . It is an integrated mobile system robot built with different sensing options and was primarily built for laboratory courses in robotics as well as for research and development work.^[2]

Description[]

Nomad 200 was a cylindrical robot around 1 metre tall and 20 inches in diameter and moved on three wheels. It could travel at 0.5 metres per second^[3] and rotate at 60 degrees per second.^[4] It was built as a synchronous system capable of handling three motors: for movement, for turning the wheels, and for turning its turret.^[5]

The basic robot, comprising the mobile base and the control system, cost $16,000 in 1990. It had a base tactile sensor ring outfitted with 20 independent pressure sensitive sensors.^[2] It could be equipped with 16 sonar sensors mounted around the circumference, 16 infra-red sensors. For example, it included a bump sensor that protects the robot from bumps that were not detected by the sonar a magnetic compass. There was also a TV camera and laser rangefinder system and two rows of ten contact sensors. The laser system worked by drawing in space a plane of light, producing a broken line when an object intersects it.^[6] The additional sensor systems cost between $1,500 and $7000.^[3]

It was controlled by an on-board Intel 486 based computer system.^[7]

References[]

^ "Nomadic FAQ". Nomadics Robot Software and Hardware Support. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
^ ^a ^b Pichler, Franz; Moreno-Diaz, Roberto; Kopacek, Peter (2007). Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST'99: A Selection of Papers from the 7th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory Vienna, Austria, September 29 - October 2, 1999 Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. pp. 18. ISBN 3-540-67822-0.
^ ^a ^b "robotics-faq/part3". Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. 12 December 1994. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
^ "Nomad 200". Center for Advanced Technology. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
^ Leondes, Cornelius T. (2018-10-08). Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Six Volume Set. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-4200-4081-4.
^ Computer Graphics: Developments in Virtual Environments. London: Academic Press. 2014. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4832-9745-3.
^ "The Nomad 200". Stanford University Knowledge Systems AI Laboratory. 1 November 1994. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

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[faq-1] "Nomadic FAQ". Nomadics Robot Software and Hardware Support. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

[:0-2] Pichler, Franz; Moreno-Diaz, Roberto; Kopacek, Peter (2007). Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST'99: A Selection of Papers from the 7th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory Vienna, Austria, September 29 - October 2, 1999 Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. pp. 18. ISBN 3-540-67822-0.

[cmu-3] "robotics-faq/part3". Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. 12 December 1994. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

[4] "Nomad 200". Center for Advanced Technology. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

[5] Leondes, Cornelius T. (2018-10-08). Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Six Volume Set. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-4200-4081-4.

[6] Computer Graphics: Developments in Virtual Environments. London: Academic Press. 2014. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4832-9745-3.

[ksl-7] "The Nomad 200". Stanford University Knowledge Systems AI Laboratory. 1 November 1994. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

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