2.3.3 Kobuki

The Kobuki (see Figure 5) is a low-cost mobile research base designed for education and research on state of the art robotics. It is highly accurate odometry, amended by calibrated gyroscope, and enables precise navigation ^[9].

The Kobuki is a mobile base with sensors, motors, and power sources. The Kobuki also provides power supplies for an external computer as well as additional sensors and actuators. This reference design attaches the AM572x EVM to be the computational core and the IWR6843ISK (through the MMWAVEICBOOST board) as the 3-D sensor to the Kobuki, and makes it truly functional as a TurtleBot2 platform for autonomous robotics.