While working in the GRITS Lab this semester, another student asked Paul if he would like to try and see if he could revive an old robot. This robot platform is called the Magellan-Pro and is the predecessor to the iRobot roomba (the vacuum cleaning robot). The GRITS Lab at GA Tech hadn't used this platform in about 5 years and it has since become outdated and no one knew how to use it, but due to its large size and quick speeds this student wanted to revive it to run a predictive controller so the robot could carry a computer and run through the hallways without hitting anything. Paul decided to take up the project and learned a lot about interfacing different software packages such as ROS and playerstage with a dual-shock joystick in order to communicate with the robot and control it. Here is the working project.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Paul revived a robot at GA Tech
While working in the GRITS Lab this semester, another student asked Paul if he would like to try and see if he could revive an old robot. This robot platform is called the Magellan-Pro and is the predecessor to the iRobot roomba (the vacuum cleaning robot). The GRITS Lab at GA Tech hadn't used this platform in about 5 years and it has since become outdated and no one knew how to use it, but due to its large size and quick speeds this student wanted to revive it to run a predictive controller so the robot could carry a computer and run through the hallways without hitting anything. Paul decided to take up the project and learned a lot about interfacing different software packages such as ROS and playerstage with a dual-shock joystick in order to communicate with the robot and control it. Here is the working project.
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awesome!!
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