QBot 2e
High-performance Autonomous Ground Robot for Indoor Labs
The Quanser QBot 2e is an innovative open-architecture autonomous ground robot, built on a 2-wheel mobile platform.
Equipped with built-in sensors, a vision system, and accompanied by extensive courseware, the QBot 2e is ideally
suited for teaching undergraduate and advanced robotics and mechatronics courses. The courseware laboratory
exercises are organized in a set of independent modules, allowing professors to select and adapt them easily for an
existing course, or build a new course.
The open-architecture control structure allows users to add other off-the-shelf sensors and customize the QBot 2e
for their research in areas such as vehicle navigation and control, autonomous vehicles control, machine learning and
computer vision, artificial intelligence high-level control architecture of mobile robots, swarm robotics, and more.
Features
Course Resources Ready to Use
Curriculum and lab exercises Wide range of sensors including:
for robotics and mechatronics bumper sensor, wheel drop
courses included sensor, cliff sensor, 3-axis
gyroscope, Kinect® RGBD sensor
Customizable Open
Ability to add off-the-shelf Open architecture
digital sensors using SPI, design with fully documented
UART, and I2C system models and
parameters provided
Courseware
• Differential drive kinematics • 2D mapping and occupancy grid map
• Forward and inverse kinematics • Image acquisition, processing and reasoning
• Dead reckoning and odometric localization • High level control architecture of mobile robots
• Path planning and obstacle avoidance • V ision-guided vehicle control
QBot 2e Bundle Components
• QBot 2e ground robot
• QUARC Autonomous License
• W ireless router
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Product Details
Adjustable camera
and depth sensor
Additional I/O channels
for customization
Low-power on-board
computer with
integrated WiFi
2-wheel platform with
built-in sensors
Device Specifications
Platform 2-wheeled Kobuki base from Yujin Robot
QBot 2e diameter 35 cm
QBot 2e height (with Kinect mounted) 27 cm
Maximum linear speed 0.7 m/s
Available payload App. 4.5 kg
Battery life Maximum 3 hours
On-board computer Raspberry Pi ™ with integrated WiFi
Camera resolution 640 x 480
Depth sensing 11 bit
Depth sensor range 0.5 - 6 m
On-board sensors 3 digital bump sensors 2 wheel encoders
2 digital wheel drop sensors 3 digital buttons
3 cliff sensors 2 over current sensors
1 3-axis gyroscope 1 battery voltage sensor
2 analog motor current sensors 1 Kinect RGBD sensor
1 Z-axis angle measurement (heading) 1 charger
2 multi-color programmable LEDs 1 speaker
18 IR dock sensors (dock not included)
Additional I/O channels available 28 reconfigurable digital I/O channels, including:
1 SPI bus channel
1 I 2C serial bus channel
2 PWM output channels
1 UART serial port (interface 3.3 V serial device)
Additional connectivity 4 USB 2.0 host ports 1 gigabit Ethernet port
1 MIPI DSI display port for touch screen 1 MIPI CSI camera port
About Quanser:
Quanser is the world leader in education and research for real-time control design and implementation. We specialize in outfitting
engineering control laboratories to help universities captivate the brightest minds, motivate them to success and produce graduates
with industry-relevant skills. Universities worldwide implement Quanser’s open architecture control solutions, industry-relevant
curriculum and cutting-edge work stations to teach introductory, intermediate or advanced controls to students in Electrical, Mechanical,
Mechatronics, Robotics, Aerospace, Civil, and various other engineering disciplines.
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