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Koa-PicoITX User Manual rev 1.0 

 

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1. 

 INTRODUCTION 

 

1.1      The Koa-PicoITX 

Thank you for buying Koa-PicoITX extension. This computer extension for Koala will 

give you the opportunity to make advanced embedded applications. Thanks to its powerful 
processor,  the  Koa-PicoITX  is  perfect  for  image  processing,  mapping  and  odometry 
calculation. The Koa-PicoITX was developed to work with a Koala, but can be used as a 
standalone mini-computer in your own application.  

 

1.2  Specifications 

The  Koa-PicoITX  is  based  on  an  EPIA-P700-10L  pico-ITX  board  from  VIA.  The 

main board is connected to a special board which provide different IO, an additional serial 
port, a power-button, led indication and the possibility to mount up to two KoreMotorLE 
to  drive  four  motors  (for  two  Pan-Tilt  cameras).  The  case  is  in  anodized  aluminum  to 
protect the main board and its extensions. 

 

Model Name 

EPIA-P700-10L 

Processor 

1.0GHz VIA C7® 500MHz VIA EdenTM ULV 

Chipset 

VIA VX700 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset 

RAM 

1GB 

Hard drive 

80GB, Maxtor MobileMax STM980215A  

System Memory 

DDR2 533/667 SODIMM socket (effective speed to 533MHz) 

VGA 

Integrated VIA UniChrome™ Pro II 3D/2D AGP graphics with 
MPEG-2/4 and WMV9 video decoding acceleration 

LAN 

Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by a  
VIA VT6122 Gigabit LAN controller 

Audio  

Line-out, Line-in, & Mic-in controlled by a  
VIA VT1708B High Definition Audio Codec 

BIOS 

Award BIOS 
4/8Mbit flash ROM 

I/O Connectors 

2x  DB9 serial port male connector 
1x  VGA connector 
1x  Gigabit Ethernet connector 
3x  USB 2.0 ports 
3x  Audio jacks: (Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in) 
Up to 4 Motor connectors 
2x  Terminal Blocks (Supply, IO & I2C bus) 
1x  KoreBot power supply connector (+12V, +5V & GND) 

Operating system 

Linux Ubuntu 9.10 

System Monitoring & 
Management 

Wake-On LAN, Keyboard Power-on, Timer Power-on 
System power management, AC power failure recovery 
Watch Dog Timer 

Operating Temperature 

0°C ~ 50°C 

Operating Humidity 

0% ~ 95% (relative humidity; non-condensing) 

Dimensions 

145 x 125 x 91 mm  

Weight 

860g 

Summary of Contents for Koa-PicoITX

Page 1: ...KOA KOA KOA KOA PICO PICO PICO PICOITX ITX ITX ITX User manual Version 1 0 april 2010 ...

Page 2: ...il info k team com Url www k team com LEGAL NOTICE The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the content of this manual However should any error be detected please inform K Team The above notwithstanding K Team can assume no responsibility for any error in this manual ...

Page 3: ...10 3 USAGE 11 3 1 ACCESS TO THE KOALA ROBOT 11 3 2 NETWORK CONFIGURATION 11 3 3 FILE TRANSFER 12 3 4 REMOTE CONNECTION 12 3 5 DIGITAL INPUT OUTPUT PORTS USAGE 12 3 6 MOTORS USAGE 13 3 7 PAN TILT CAMERA USAGE 14 4 PROGRAMMING 15 4 1 DIRECTLY ON THE ROBOT 15 4 1 1 Template program 15 4 1 2 Using examples 16 4 2 ON ANOTHER COMPUTER 18 5 SOFTWARE REINSTALLATION 19 5 1 UBUNTU INSTALLATION 19 5 2 LIBKOR...

Page 4: ...sor 1 0GHz VIA C7 500MHz VIA EdenTM ULV Chipset VIA VX700 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset RAM 1GB Hard drive 80GB Maxtor MobileMax STM980215A System Memory DDR2 533 667 SODIMM socket effective speed to 533MHz VGA Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II 3D 2D AGP graphics with MPEG 2 4 and WMV9 video decoding acceleration LAN Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by a VIA VT6122 Gigabit LAN controller Audio L...

Page 5: ...d especially the Forum and the FAQs Unpacking and Inspection Koa PicoITX s package description and first start up Hardware installation explanation on how to mount the Koa PicoITX on a Koala and how to mount extension inside the case Usage description of the usage of the PicoITX and its devices Programming description of the programming methods of the Koa PicoITX Software reinstallation instructio...

Page 6: ...h Koala turn it off It will save the battery life 1 5 Recycling Think about the end of life of your robot Parts of the robot can be recycled and it is important to do so It is for instance important to keep batteries out of the solid waste stream When you throw away a battery it eventually ends up in a landfill or municipal incinerator These batteries which contain Lithium Polymer can contribute t...

Page 7: ...ING AND INSPECTION 2 1 Package Content Figure 2 1 Content of the Koa PicoITX extension Your package should contain the following items 1 Koa PicoITX box 2 Koa PicoITX Support CD 3 Power Supply cable 4 Serial cable DB9 DB15 5 4x fixation screws ...

Page 8: ...2V black GND 4 Motor connector M2 5 Motor connector M0 6 Terminal block 1 5V 2 3 3V 3 I2 C clock 4 I2 C data 5 GND 6 GPIO2 7 GPIO3 8 GPI4 9 GPI5 10 GND 7 Audio jacks connector Line IN Line OUT Mic IN 8 USB 2 0 connectors 9 COM0 serial connector dev ttyS0 10 Power button 11 Power LED indicator 12 Hard Drive LED indicator 13 VGA output 14 USB serial port dev ttyUSB0 15 Gigabit Ethernet connector ...

Page 9: ... KoalaSilverUserManual pdf Connect the serial cable to the USB serial port n 14 in the overview and the RS232 serial port on the rear of the Koala see n 4 page 4 in the Koala User Manual Place the jumper in the back DCE serial line position see page 8 in the Koala User Manual and set the running mode selector of the Robot to the position A 115200bps communication Connect a VGA monitor an USB keybo...

Page 10: ...ou have the menu bar at the top of the desktop with direct access to help file manager terminal consol network manager and logout buttons You can have more help at http help ubuntu com Figure 2 3 Ubuntu desktop The system should be already fully working with the gcc compiler installed and the libkorebot See chapter 4 PROGRAMMING for software development and the next chapter for using the different...

Page 11: ...he uppercase B then press return this should return b 1 19 1 19 See chapter 4 PROGRAMMING for software development 3 2 Network configuration The system should connect autonomously at start up to your wired network if a Ethernet cable is connected and you have a dhcp server without identification If this is not the case with the icon in the figure above you can setup your network connection You can...

Page 12: ...ddress PATH is the path to the file destination on the remote computer 3 4 Remote connection You can connect to the robot by different ways for transferring files with the scp command seen above using the RemoteDesktop feature configure the System Preferences Remote Desktop menu with the ssh protocol command ssh X picoitx ROBOT_IP from where you can launch the file manager nautilus any other graph...

Page 13: ...coITX Overview to connect one or two motors up to 4 See the KoreMotorLE user manual for more details about the connections and motors http ftp k team com korebot documentation KoreMotorLE UserManual pdf In the directory software libkorebot_VERSION src tests the kmotLE_test program is already compiled Run it with the command kmotLE_test MOTOR_NAME where MOTOR_NAME KoreMotorLE PriMotor1 motor M0 Kor...

Page 14: ...NG for software development 3 7 Pan tilt camera usage You can connect up to two Pan tilt cameras using the motors connectors chapter 2 2 Koa PicoITX Overview M0 and M1 for the first one M2 and M3 and another KoreMotorLE needed See the Pan Tilt user manual for more details about the connections http ftp k team com koala pan tilt PanTiltCameraManual pdf In the directory software libkorebot_VERSION s...

Page 15: ...should already be installed in software libkorebot_VERSION where VERSION is the actual version The documentation for the library is available here http ftp k team com korebot libkorebot doc files html There is a template program with which you can start your own program located in software libkorebot_VERSION template With the following commands you can compile then run it make clean make template ...

Page 16: ...low Firstly a device pointer of type knet_dev_t must be declared The library debug level is set kb_set_debug_level and the library initialised kb_init Then the device is open with knet_open From now any command can be sent to the Koala By example koa_setSpeed for setting the speed of the robot which will make it move directly Some main functions are listed below setting speed int koa_setSpeed knet...

Page 17: ...test digital inputs outputs gpio_test c additional motors kmotLE_test c pan tilt camera kmotLE_pantilt c koala_test c include korebot korebot h int main int argc char argv knet_dev_t koala int rc unsigned char buf 16 unsigned char a b c d kb_set_debug_level 2 if rc kb_init argc argv 0 return 1 koala knet_open Koala Robot KNET_BUS_ANY 0 NULL if koala printf Open failed r n koa_getOSVersion koala a ...

Page 18: ...ation or install the VirtualBox virtual machine from Sun Microsystems with the Ubuntu OS installed into it http www virtualbox org Then you install the compiler and the libkorebot as described in the annexes You don t need to install the gpio and i2c drivers as they are working only on the PicoITX Finally you can compile your program as explained in chapter above 4 1 above Directly on the robot th...

Page 19: ...itx_XYZ tar bz2 Copy the library into the system sudo cp libkorebot 1 14 kb1 build x86 lib libkorebot so usr lib Copy the config files into the system sudo cp R libkorebot 1 14 kb1 config etc libkorebot 5 3 Compiler installation Execute just this command in a terminal sudo apt get install build essential Install linux headers sudo apt get install linux headers uname r sudo apt get install module a...

Page 20: ... etc init d i2c_chown etc rc2 d S99i2c_chown load the module sudo modprobe i2c_dev launch the script sudo etc init d i2c_chown 5 4 2 gpio driver for an autonomous start up add it in the file etc modules with command sudo sh c echo via_gpio etc modules create the file via_gpio giving node initialization and device group modification in etc init d content of file via_gpio bin sh create node mknod de...

Page 21: ... file gpio driver_XYZ tar bz2 mkdir software cd software tar xjf gpio driver_XYZ tar bz2 in the directory gpiodriver driver clean the old file recompile it unload the old module install the new one and load it with the commands make clean pay attention to not use sudo for this command else you will have to resintall the kernel headers files make sudo make install sudo make load ...

Page 22: ...and repair parts cost to Customer under the condition that Customer brings such Product to K TEAM within the period mentioned before Repair or replacement under warranty does not entitle to original warranty team extension This limited warranty is invalid if the factory applied serial number has been altered or removed from the Product This limited warranty covers only the hardware and software co...

Page 23: ...rom the use of the Product in conjunction with any accessories products or ancillary or peripheral equipment or where it is determined by K Team that there is no fault with the Product itself K Team expressly disclaims all other warranties than stated hereinbefore expressed or implied including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose to the ful...

Page 24: ...Koa PicoITX User Manual rev 1 0 24 K Team S A Rue Galilee 9 1400 Yverdon les bains Switzerland ...

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