Sunday 13 May 2012

Progress Update

The last ROS install and Ubuntu 11.10 was very slow and unworkable after a fresh install and running ROS Fuerte with no GUI installed at all its runs much faster the only problem is the usb wi fi is not working. After a reading a few blogs and experience with network usage we chose to install a wireless hub and run Qbot on his own network. This has solved a few problems ROS has to be installed from source so the extra speed is welcome at the moment we came run the arbotix and control from cmd_vel  and the controllrGUI from a remote computer. We have added a Xbox wireless controller the ROS joystick node is still causing a problem.
On the hardware front we added a head and stereo cameras and changed the layout to make it smaller the wireless hub run of the 5 volt supply we need to change the reg to a switching type with at least 3 amps the servos run on 9 volts to keep the servos cool .later we will switch to 12 volt for the higher torque