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High Speed KURT2 (fast moving autonomous mobile robot) is an autonomous mobile robot that drives with 4.0 m/s (14.4 km/h) in our corridors (reliably controlled!!). We can control these high speed robots with some special real-time algorithms and a tricky robot control architecture which combines the algorithms with the robot hardware.

KURT is a German acronym for experimental robot platform for sewerage inspection. It is the prototype of a wireless autonomous mobile robot.

It is equipped with a Panasonic tough-book (+4.2 kg, 800 MHz pentium 3) and a 3D laser range finder. For indoor environements the front and rear wheels have no tread pattern to enhance rotating. KURT2 operates for about 4 hours with one battery charge. The core of the robot is a Pentium-III-600 MHz with 384 MB RAM and Real-Time Linux. An embedded 16-Bit CMOS microcontroller is used to control the motor and lower sensors (Phytec. Minimodul C167, inc. flash rom). It's current maximum velocity that we can control with our robot control architecture and the laser range finder.

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robot , fast , robotics , autonomous , high speed