RoboMagellan NAV

Posted by KM6VV on June 27, 2012 at 9:32am

I have a notebook computer now set up with Ubuntu, and I hope to get ROS up on it and running.  Then I can link in ArduRover for NAV, LiDAR for obstacle avoidance, a Blackfin Camera for orange cone detection, and the motor drive stuff.  For now, I've got a SparkFun 9DOF IMU that I'd like to try.

After I'm sure I can use ROS, I'll buy a CompuLab SBC-FITPC2 Single Board Computer.  At least, that's the plan!

I'm currently working on the 6WD chassis.

Now that we have a thread, maybe the comments will fall in line!

Alan

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  • Niall Dempsey July 9, 2012 at 2:38am

    I'm checking out the Raspberry Pi. It is low cost with minimal power consumption, low weight and speedy boot up. Considering setting it up as a wireless webserver using a wireless mobile dongle or maybe using WiFi. Then it could control the robot over the internet, stream back video and maybe do some additional sensor processing.

  • Bot Thoughts June 27, 2012 at 12:29pm

    Sounds great! Looking forward to updates. I'm curious about the whole Robomagellan thing. Would love to enter a (the?) competition some day. The problem only seems similar to the AVC on the very, very, surface of it. :)  It'd be interesting to deal with terrain rougher than parking lot with potholes.

  • Admin
    Thomas J Coyle III June 27, 2012 at 10:17am

    Hi Alan,

    I have been building a Parallax EDDIE clone based on Steve Norris' designs. I plan on using a mini-itx based on an Intel embedded processor board. Since EDDIE has a MS Kinect onboard, image recognition is a snap. Steve Norris has already written target recognition code for EDDIE and it is open source. I have added extra SLA batteries to my clone chassis so it can travel a great distance without recharging.

    Regards,

    TCIII

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