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The Motor Board communicates with the Sensor&Management Board exchanging information about
the system status, diagnostics and environment condition, allowing low-level robot reactions to
changes that can affect the robot’s operation.
It is able to communicate with the computer using a USB-to-RS232 Converter and with the
Sensor&Management Board through a RS232 bidirectional communication.
4.2. Sensor and Charger Board
The Sensor&Charger Board is responsible for the power management and also the sensor
acquisition. It receives orders from the onboard robot Navigation Computer and returns information
about the batteries, sensors and actuators. The Sensor&Charger Board Architecture is depicted in
Figure 8.
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Figure 7: developed Motor Controller Board
Figure 8: Sensor&Charger Board Architecture