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Bluetechnix products and developments were used in Aeronautical, Agricultural, Automotive, Consumer, Industrial, Medical and Military Applications as well as in Film Industry. Besides AUVs, Sensor Systems, Control and Measuring Systems, etc Handheld Devices are based on our products and developments. Our Customers are small and medium enterprises as well as international operating concerns, university and research centers. Since Bluetechnix is developing high end electronics many of our customers do not want to be mentioned at our website. So in the following three research projects are given:
Tinyphoon, a mobile autonomous robot
	Tinyphoon represents a completely autonomous robot with integrated digital camera. Since it is derived from Roby-Go, a MiroSOT Soccer Robot, it is still a two-wheeled differentially driven robot with the dimensions of a cube with an edge length of 75mm. The first version of Tinyphoon was finished and introduced in September 2003. It consists of a motion unit containing the motor driver, a micro controller, digital encoders for the measurement of the wheels' speed, acceleration sensors and a yaw rate sensor. Furthermore it consists of a mono vision system unit equipped with a CMOS camera and a DSP (Digital Signal Processor). Both units are connected via CAN (Controller Area Network) bus. The robot was presented on the largest exhibition for embedded Systems in Europe, at the Embedded World 2004 in Nürnberg and in the USA (Redmond: Microsoft Headquarter and San Francisco: Embedded System fair). www.tinyphoon.com
NANO, an advanced hand sized 6-leg robot
	The project Nano aims at developing a walking robot that imitates a natural being; the model for the construction is the Indian Stick Insect Carasaus morosus. On the basis of the biological information needed, mechanical and electrical and computing sience complement each other in order to achieve the transition from insect to robot. www.tappotec.com
AMOUR (Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot)
	Armor is AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) that is used to deploy and read information from underwater sensor nodes. The application of wireless sensor networks to the underwater domain has huge potential for monitoring the health of river and marine environments. The oceans alone cover 70% of our planet and along with rivers and lakes are critical to our well-being. Monitoring these environments is difficult and costly for humans: divers are regulated in the hours and depths at which they can work, and require a boat on the surface that is costly to operate and subject to weather conditions. A sensor network deployed underwater could monitor physical variables such as water temperature and pressure as well as variables such as conductivity, turbidity and certain pollutants. The network could track plumes of silt due to dredging operations or pollutants flowing in from land, and it could monitor and model the behavior of underwater ecosystems. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/underwater_robotics/amour/amour.html http://www.worldswimformalaria.com/en/Sponsorme.aspx?SwimmerID=43 http://www.csail.mit.edu/index.php

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Bluetechnix.at

Company main Information Site

Bluetechnix is involved in the following Projects as Hardware supplier or active Development Partner:

robotsoccer.at

Club for Promotion of Robot Soccer and Multi Agent Systems

CLARA

Consortium and Laboratory on Advanced Robotics Architectures of the Vienna University of Technology

www.tinyphoon.com

Tinyphoon represents a completely autonomous robot with integrated digital camera