#rosnode

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…