GCtronic


GCtronic is active in the fields of electronics, robotics, mechatronics and computer science. It proposes services and consulting for development of projects, products, software and system integration. The company sells and supports its own products as well as third party ones.

The main expertise is project development and integration; from the global problem to the final solution!


NEWS


May 2009. The developer of the e-puck robot just published a reference design paper:
The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
Mondada, Francesco ; Bonani, Michael ; Raemy, Xavier ; Pugh, James ; Cianci, Christopher ; Klaptocz, Adam ; Magnenat, Stephane ; Zufferey, Jean-Christophe ; Floreano, Dario ; Martinoli, Alcherio
Presented at: 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009.
Link to the pdf

April 2009. The partner company Skybotix launched CoaX: a compact, lightweight indoor coaxial helicopter.

December 2008. Seasonal GIFT: transform your e-puck into a Christmas demo with sound and light!
See the demo on YouTube.
Download the complete SW project or just the .hex.
Also a Matlab script to easily transform sound wav files to be compiled in an e-puck project

September 2008. e-puck is used in several universities and techincal school but not only. In this picture an artistic exhibition!

June 2008. New production is ready to ship. There are some small enhancements and a new camera.

To use the new camera (from serial number 1500), update your software at gna.org/projects/e-puck or at e-puck_links.php


March 2008. New ON-LINE SHOP page is active and running. You can directly order with paypal or ask for an official offer.

January 2008. Reflective strip for e-puck available: On-line shop. This is very useful for mutual detection in case of experiments with multiple robots.

October 2007. Ground sensor module available. EPFL doc

June 2007. Charger for 4 e-puck batteries available : On-line shop.

November 2006. GCtronic joined the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium. The consortium promote the use of new robot technologies at an industrial level and aims to create and improve the awareness of today's and tomorrow's Mobile Robotics market.

September 2006. The educational mobile robot e-puck developed by EPFL-ASL (now EPFL-MOBOTS) is available from GCtronic. Technical details at www.gctronic.com/e-puck.php or www.e-puck.org. For more information contact info@gctronic.com