pantec's Khepera Page
Description: control program for khepera robots
Keywords: khepera,robotics

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# pantecs Khepera Page

All information in this webpage is dealing with the control program for the KheperaŽ robot written by Thomas Pantzer.

#### Program Features

- controls up to 4 KheperaŽ robots at the same time
- provides a drawing area to the user for additional programming
- used XForms graphics library provides easy starting in X-programming
- the demo version is able to read a simple neuronal net for controlling purpose
  the net can be created and trained by SNNS
- best to make the first steps with your brandnew KheperaŽ robot

#### Library Features

- interface to the real robot packed into one C++ object
- the vision turret and the gripper are also supported
- the scanned image can be preprocessed by edge detect or fourier transform algorithms
- can make connections to sockets as well as to serial ports. This makes it possible to use a khepera simulator
- has some additional functions for turns and movement

#### Preview

- apperance
- kcontrol manpage

#### Requirements

- installed XForms library version 0.81 or higher
- GNU gcc,tar,install and make
- khepera library written by Thomas Pantzer

#### Download

With netscape hold the shift key and press the left mousebutton on the URL to download these files.

- the sources of the khepera library with demoprogram and german documentation
- the sources of the kcontrol program
- compiled and statically linked linux version of kcontrol
- same as sun version

#### Copyright

kcontrol,libkhepera Copyright 1997 by Thomas Pantzer

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for noncommercial use and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of the Author not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. The Author makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.

maintained by Thomas Pantzer ,
mailto pantec@aix520.informatik.uni-leipzig.de,
PGP public key available