V5 Robot Brain
Everything starts with the V5 Robot Brain. Students and teachers can now run programs, troubleshoot their robot and get important feedback in real-time. Smart Ports automatically detect the type of connected device and handle motors and sensors interchangeably.
Other features include:
- 4.25” full color touch-screen
- Dashboards provide real-time diagnostics
- 21 Smart Ports
- Eight 3-Wire ports for analog and digital sensors
- Download programs wirelessly
- Programmable with VEXcode
Connection
The V5 Robot Brain allows for "on the fly" device connection and port swapping. Legacy VEX EDR Sensors and Motors are also supported through eight 3-Wire ports.
Software
Select from one of eight user downloaded programs, or run device diagnostics and configuration for real-time feedback, all right from the brain.
Mounting
The V5 Robot Brain can be mounted in a variety of ways. The brain can be attached to the robot via four 8-32 mounting inserts on the bottom of the brain, or through detachable mounting flanges.
Internals
The V5 Robot Brain uses a Cortex A9 processor in tandem with a FPGA to create a device that is 15x faster than the its predecessor. The V5 Robot Brain also has expanded memory, and additional storage for user programs.
| V5 Robot Brain Specifications | VEX ARM® Cortex®-based Microcontroller | |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Ports | Any of the 21 Smart Ports | 10 |
| Smart Sensor Ports | Any of the 21 Smart Ports | |
| Radio Ports | Any of the 21 Smart Ports | |
| Tether Ports | Any of the 21 Smart Ports | remove radios, use USB Cable |
| Digital Ports | Any of the 8 built-in 3-Wire Ports | 8 |
| Analog Ports | Any of the 8 built-in 3-Wire Ports | 12 |
| 3-Wire Expansion | Add 8 more ports using a 3-Wire Expander. The 3-Wire Expander uses one Smart Port. |
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| VEXos Processor | One Cortex A9 at 667 MHz Two Cortex M0 at 32 MHz each One FPGA1 |
ARM7 |
| User Processor | One Cortex A9 1333 Million Instructions per second (MIPS) |
Cortex M3 90 MIPS |
| RAM | 128 MB | 0.0625 MB |
| Flash | 32 MB | 0.375 MB |
| User Program Slots | 8 | 1 |
| USB | 2.0 High Speed (480 Mbit/s) | Full Speed (12 Mbit/s) |
| Color Touch Screen | 4.25”, 480 x 272 pixels, 65k colors | |
| Expansion | up to 16 GB, FAT32 | |
| Wireless | VEXnet 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.2 | VEXnet 2.0 |
| System Voltage | 12.8 V | 7.2 V |
| Size | 4.0” W x 5.5” H x 1.3” L (101.6 mm x 139.7 mm x 33.02 mm) |
4.5” W x 3.9” H x 1.0” L (114. 3mm x 99.06 mm x 25.4 mm) |
| Weight | 0.63 lbs (285g) | 0.30 lbs (137g) |
1. A Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an electronic component used to build reconfigurable digital circuits. The V5 Brain uses the FPGA for touch screen inputs, screen layering, 60 Hz screen refreshing, timers, and the 21 smart ports.
- (1) V5 Robot Brain
- (1) Magnetic Screen Protector
- (1) V5 Power Cable
- (2) Attachment Flanges (Long)
- (2) Attachment Flanges (Short)
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- V5 Controller
- V5 Robot Battery Li-Ion 1100mAh
- V5 Smart Motor
- V5 Vision Sensor
- Potentiometer
- Optical Shaft Encoder
- Line Tracker
- Bumper Switch
- Light Sensor
- Limit Switch
- Ultrasonic Range Finder