K-Team (Switzerland), a developer of miniature mobile robots, has announced that it is supporting the embedded Linux community by providing “Video for Linux” (V4L) drivers that support PC/104 and other video capture boards in robot vision applications.

K-Team is actively promoting real-time Linux as an operating system for autonomous robotics. However, robotics application development is currently limited by the small number of video capture devices supported under Linux. By supporting video capture cards compatible with the PC/104 standard, K-Team aims at advancing their use in miniature autonomous robotics. The K-Team drivers support the “Video for Linux 2” (V4L2) standard.

About K-Team

K-Team SA is a young, expanding, and flexible company founded in 1995 by research engineers of the Microcomputing Laboratory (LAMI) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) who formed a mobile robotics research group in 1992. The primary goal in founding the company was to create a more stable and commercial future for the technology transfer of research and development for mobile robots based on the expansive experience generated at the EPFL.

The combination of industrial quality and university know-how ensures reliable miniaturized implementations in mechanics and control and has lead to a number of industrial and technology awards. It has also lead to the world-wide selling of more than 1000 Khepera micro-robots to over 400 international research institutes, making K-Team the world's leading company in micro-robotics.

 
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