Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Taking shape

The Omni_bot is taking shape the new struts are working the magnetic encoders are calibrated. at the moment we are using ROS Kinetic until the basics are working. We are incorporating the lessons learnt with Robbie. the on-off is only a push button and power to the motors is controlled by the Arduino. and the charger has a spring to give a positive connection. Power is a 2 stage design a hot Bus that handles charging and starting the system and MOSFETs to toggle other systems as required

Pressing problems
  • Jointstates not publishing in rviz
  • steering turns continuously on shut down

omni-bot update

Its time to give the omni_bot some love changes are as follows change rpi4 for a I5 mini pc use a t265 for localisation hobby servos for ste...