#robocontroller

The double PID Tuner in action

Just a few photo about the double PID Tuner in action with MyzharBot.

The release 0.1 ff the PID Tuner is finally available on Github:

https://github.com/officinerobotiche/uNav_PID_Tuner/

Follow the guide on the “readme” file to install the dependencies under Linux OS.

The PID Tuner can be used to tune the two PID controllers on the RoboController board and on the uNav board.

The PIDs are used to control the speed of the motors. The speed in the software is…

The joining with uNav project has done! @OfficineRobotic #ROS

Finally the migration to uNav project by Officine Robotiche has been done. The RoboController board now runs the same firmware as the uNav board and all the node to interface with ROS framework are fully working.

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MyzharBot is joining the uNav project by Officine Robotiche

MyzharBot has started the migration to a new software configuration. Everything started from the uNav project by Officine Robotiche. Since MyzharBot is part of the new born italian amateur robotics group named “Officine Robotiche“, in the last few months we worked together to unify the software that drives the robots of the group to be able to collaborate more actively on our projects.

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First steps with ROS… MyzharBot moves its tracks!

Here is the video of the first “steps” made by MyzharBot under ROS. In the last days I wrote down the code for the rosnode that will provide motor control: robocontroller_node.

Using the “turtle_teleop_key” node, included in ROS, I tested that the communication between ROS and RoboController board was ok… and it works very well as you can see by the following video.

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Migration to ROS is ongoing…

As mentioned in the previous post, MyzharBot is migrating to ROS. One of the first step to realize was the porting of the interface to the RoboController board using modbus protocol.

Well, it is ready!

The rosnode that will perform the Motion Control of the Robot is able to connect to RoboController and to ping it… a little step that hides a lot of knowledge…

I suggest the reading of the book “A…