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Using Propeller with ROS

RoboTyRoboTy Posts: 5
edited 2011-05-20 16:11 in Propeller 1
Hello,

I'm looking to build a robot with higher level PC control, and the lower level motor control, and sensor reading done with a propeller board.

Has anyone working with ROS and the propeller chip (http://www.ros.org/wiki/)? I searched the ROS packages and the propeller code repository and didn't find anything.

Comments

  • JamesRonaldJamesRonald Posts: 39
    edited 2011-05-19 18:15
    Anything new on the ROS front? I'm surprised that there's nothing for the scribber2 yet.

    It's also strange that when I do search on the forums for ROS that nothing show up. I would have expected a search to at least find this message. :(
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-05-19 20:43
    I think you'll find a three letter search term is two short to work in this forum. You can search for ROS* but then you will get a million comments by RossH:)

    I have never heard of ROS before, must check it out.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-05-19 20:46
    If you use Google's advance search and specify the "forums.parralax.com" site only with a search for an exact match on "ROS" you will find lot's of posts about it here.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-05-19 20:53
    It's hopeless, nowhere on that ROS site does it tell you what ROS is or why I might want one.
  • RickBRickB Posts: 395
    edited 2011-05-19 21:06
    Heater: Robot Operating System
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-05-19 21:32
    Yes "Robot Operating System" is all I got out of it. Could not find a quick one page description of the facilities/services it offers.
  • th3jesterth3jester Posts: 81
    edited 2011-05-20 07:37
    I've looked into ROS a bit before. From my understanding, and I could be wrong, it is just a bunch of java-like "classes" that makes it easy to interface to different devices, sensors, motors, ect.. I see it similar to the OBEX here in that a lot of people have contributed to it yet the difference is that ROS is more specific towards robotics. Kondor is similar and so is Flowstone from DSP Robotics.

    I started to make an ROS object for the propeller. I didn't get too far due to school, but hopefully I'll get back on. It would basically be an object that one could use and call different methods for lots of different I/O.

    I would suggest a SBC (single board computer) capable of running Kondor, Flowstone, or something similar (possibly the ROS code) and then that SBC can easily interface to the Propeller through USB.

    Flowstone: http://www.dsprobotics.com/index.html
    Kondor: http://www.kondorproject.com/#
    ROS: http://www.ros.org/wiki/
  • M. K. BorriM. K. Borri Posts: 279
    edited 2011-05-20 16:11
    I have a very preliminary version of ROS running on Android and talking to a Prop using ADB, but the Prop is only doing i/o and motor control right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROg2YvwWsDs I had these at UPEW 2010 and reently updated them.
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