The Robotics Lab
Address
Laboratorio di RoboticaDipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Parma
Viale delle Scienze - CAMPUS
43100 Parma
Tel. +39 521 905702
Fax +39 521 905723
E-mail robotics@ce.unipr.it
Lab location
The Robotics Lab is located within room n.2, Building 1 (ground floor) of Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione at the Area delle Scienze campus of the University of Parma.The facility has been active since spring 93 and has been relentless enriched with a number of hardware and software resources.
Staff
- Prof. Stefano Caselli, Director
- Ing. Francesco Zanichelli, Ph.D.
- Ing. Giuseppe Beccari, Ph.D. student
Graduate students
- Ing. Cristian Bertani
- Ing. Marcello Bertani
- Ing. Alberto Calafiore
- Ing. Enrico Caraffi
- Ing. Davide Diemmi
- Ing. Stefano Grossi
- Ing. Antonio Visioli, Ph.D. student at the University of Brescia (I)
Thesis students
- Alessio Alessandretti
- Davide Buratti
- Luigi Capuzzello
- Omar Pighi
- Monica Reggiani
- Stefano Battistini
Resources
"Muzio Scevola"
"Muzio Scevola" is a Puma 560 fitted with a small gripper equipped
with a pair of ultrasonic transducers to be used in horizontal and vertical
navigation.
On the gripper there is a pair of light beams
aligned with the z-sonar. Sonars and light beams are
controlled by a self-contained 68HC11-based miniboard which provides
their information sampled at 50 Hz.
An industrial machine vision
system (DATALOGIC DVS 1000) operates up to two B/W cameras (stationary
and on-board). The vision system is based on a 20 MIPS Hitachi DSP and
is linked through a parallel, digital connection to the the main
robot control system.
The latter consists of a VME-based microSPARC FORCE-3CE CPU which runs
Solaris 2.x hosting RCCL. This system is interfaced via parallel I/O to
a Unimation Mark II Puma controller, and via RS232 to the 68HC11 board.
"The UB-Hand in our lab"
"Giulio Cesare"
"Giulio Cesare" is a Nomadic Technologies Nomad200 mobile robot
equipped with four sensor modules including tactile, infrared, ultrasonic,
and a CCD camera on a pan-tilt unit. The robot has on-board computers for
sensor and motor control as well as a 486DX/2 IBM-compatible computer,
connected to our LAN by a radio Ethernet system.
"Giulio Cesare" is programmed with an integrated software package including
a graphical robot simulator; the package facilitates the development of (C-Lisp)
robot program, running both on simulator
and on-board systems.
"Nerone"
"Nerone" is a small mobile robot built by M. Limoni and A. Melotti.
It is based on a MC68HC16Z and it is equipped with 6 infrared
sensors and a bumper ring.
A recent addition is an electromagnet capable of gripping a metal
plate to be used as a marker.
The little ones
Our cake-shaped "Modulus"
A couple of winning Mantarays: "Scipione" & "Annibale"
