Gribot migrated to ROS Melodic
Gribot has now been migrated to ROS Melodic on Ubuntu 18.04. The installation procedure is the same that before: configuration files have not been changed now.
Simulating with Gazebo and ROS
Simulating with Gazebo and ROS My various tests with ROS quickly led me to the conclusion that it was essential to build a model for simulating gribot with Gazebo and ROS. This makes it possible to experiment without risk, as well as to test the various ROS and robot elements …
First test in simulator
This is the first test down with Gazebo simulator and ROS. The robot model looks like a Lego toy, but the functionalities are there: it is possible to pilot it with a joystick and start to use move_base for automatic path planning. I’m designing Gribot hardware in a CAD application. …
Creating a Gribot workspace
Creating a Gribot workspace Gribot software is based on ROS, and all software project files are hosted on github. It is rather easy to create a ROS and Gribot workspace: you can find everything on the web. However, to simplify the live of readers, we are enumerating all the steps in …
Preparing ROS for CAN operation
Introduction Note: this post is not yet complete. What is described in it allows to do some simple tests between CAN and ROS, but does now allow yet to pilot the wheels, and the robot. I will update this post as soon as I will have done more config. Before …