University of Pavia (Robotics Lab)

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On-going work at the Robotics Laboratory, University of Pavia

In sparse order:

1)
Ettore Di Palma is working to the interfacing of FLEX boards to current sensors from LEM, aiming at the wireless monitoring of electric loads. Sensors currently adopted are the AT series components AT 100 B10 and AT 50 B10. The interface to the FLEX is already working. We aim to integrate the monitoring system into a domotic system, probably based on the X10 technology.

2)
Daniele Caprini is working to the interfacing of FLEX boards to the Yamar DCB500 powerline transceiver for automotive applications, which is a potential alternative to the standard CAN and LIN buses. We are testing the communication system on an ignition system for racing cars.

3)
Marco Ghibaudi is working on a wireless audio broadcasting application, using FLEX boards together with the EasyBee ZigBee radio module. The application is based on FFT transforms, wavelet compression, and optimized coding to use, among the other features, custom fixed point math with the Microchip dsPIC.

4)
Marco Della Vedova is working on a multi-robot application where small mobile robots are moving in environments with obstacles. The FLEX board controls each robot, and has to drive an H bridge for controlling the two DC motors, sample encoders, and receive external information from the integrated EasyBee module. Here a demo video is available.

5)
Alberto Savioli is developing a 6 DOF Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), interfacing the FLEX board with a 3-axis accelerometer, 2 2-axis gyroscopes, a GPS receiver, a magnetometer and a temperature sensor. The sensor data fusion is done using a Kalman filter running on the Microchip dsPIC controller.

For more information, please contact head researcher Tullio Facchinetti.

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