[Cialug] ROS (Robot Operating System)

[Todd Pierce]

Dan,

You have a Chumbot?  I saw one of those on the cover of Linux Journal last
fall.  It looked cool as hell.   I don't know the S2 or boebot too well, but
something running Linux (like the Chumbot) would be a huge upgrade.

Is the serial connection to the robot working?  Is the WiFi connection
working?  Ultimately, one of those would have to be working to get any
milage out of it.

Does yours have a range sensor?  Either way, a good experiment would be
putting the OctoMap software (http://robots.net/article/3153.html) through
some tests, even if sensing is just through stall conditions.  Knowing
OctoMap would be useful for robotics purposes no matter what you do moving
forward.

Are you much of a programmer?

-Todd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   It's no ROS but it's what I've been messing with the past couple months.
>
> www.linuxtoys.org/chumbot/*chumby*_as_*robot*.pdf
> www.chumby.com
> It's based on OE
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Main_Page
> I thought I could use it with my parallax S2 or boebot, but getting it to
> work with the usb2serial adapter was a PITA, but that's all the farther I've
> gotten with with it.
> -dan
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 4/23/11, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Cialug] ROS (Robot Operating System)
> To: Cialug at cialug.org
> Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10:18 AM
>
>
>  Hi All,
>
> I'm beginning to research ROS not only in the event I have to build a
> robot, but it also looks like it might be useful for cluster computing.
>
> It seems like it's a bit big, so I'm starting to learn about it even before
> I secure hardware.  I'm probably going to be exploiting a lot of the
> functionality through Lisp.
>
> Anyway, if anybody has any experience with ROS, it would be nice to hear
> from you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Todd
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