2 Hardware overview
A typical EvoLogics Sonobot system is pictured below.
Figure 1: EvoLogics Sonobot system
• The Sonobot surface vehicle consists of the main body (1) with the on-board equipment, mounted on crossbars
(2) that attach to the twin hulls - the floaters (3), housing the batteries and the integrated hydro-jet thrusters (see
Fig. 1).
The Sonobot was designed for an effortless no-tool assembly, therefore the main body, the crossbars and the floaters
are held together by eccentric latches that are both secure and fast to unlock. Section 3 provides step by step
instructions on assembling the Sonobot.
The on-board equipment of the vehicle (depending on the configuration) includes: a differential GPS system, a
single-beam echo-sounder, a side-scan sonar, a wireless communication system, a radio control system, an autopilot
and the on-board PC.
• The shore equipment comprises a wireless LAN station (4), a field PC (5) and a radio control unit (6). The
wireless station is a WLAN box, connected to an antenna on a tripod.
• The system comes with two transport boxes (7), three battery chargers, a connection cable for the WLAN antenna
and an Ethernet connection cable for the field PC.
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