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Recharging
To keep the battery at ideal condition, we recommend recharging the robot at least once every two weeks during
storage (e.g. robot is not in use).
Plug the charging plug from the portable charger onto the secondary recharging socket on the back of the robot,
and then turn on the robot
. The charging process will normally take about 2 hours if the battery power is totally
exhausted. The charging process will automatically stop when completed.
Further Development & Programming
The Sputnik
3
Control program is written with C# program with Visual Studio 2008 express under .Net 3.5
framework. You could download the development tools (Visual Studio 2008 express under .Net 3.5 framework)
free from Microsoft. Please refer to the “Dr Robot Application Development Notes on C# Programming for Robot
Control” for further information.
The control program uses the supporting components and libraries that should have been installed when you
install the control program from the installation CD:
1.
DRROBOTSentinelCONTROL.OCX: Please refer to “WiRobot SDK API Reference Manual.pdf” for
detail.
2.
WiRobotGatewayPlus.exe
3.
DrRobotSensorMapBuilder.dll: This dll file provides functions to build the environmental map for
collision avoidance feature.
4.
DrRobotP2PSpeedDrive.dll: This dll file provides functions to drive a robot form one specific point
to another.
5.
DrRobotConstellation.dll: Sputnik
3
robot uses the sonar based Constellation indoor GPS localization
system. This dll file provides the functions to locate the robot position with the Constellation system.
6.
DrRobotGPS.dll Sputnik
3
use the vision-landmark based indoor GPS localization system. This dll file
provides the functions to locate the robot position with vision based GPS system.
7.
VitaminControl.dll This is the camera control component for the Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera (P/N: AV-
PTZ-VH) used for i90 robots such as Sentinel –II, Sentinel-III, and Sputnik
3
. Please refer to “PTZ
Camera ActiveX Control Reference Manual.pdf” for detail.
8. AXIS Media Control Library Set These are the camera control component for the AXIS Mini Camera
(P/N: AXCAM) used for the Dual-camera Head and Scout arm. Please refer to “AXIS Media Control SDK
Help” for detail.
For support on development using Microsoft Robotics Studio, operation system other than MS Windows, or raw
communication protocol, please contact [e-mail]
.