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Poor Man's Raspberry Pi Turtlebot

Autonomous ROS-powered robot vacuum cleaner project

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This project was created on 12/01/2015 and last updated 3 years ago.

Description

This is a Poor Man's Turtlebot

End goal: Vacuum my Roomba hostile apartment

Software
-Raspberry Pi 2: ROS Indigo on Arch Linux for Arm
-Laptop: ROS Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Installing the Turtlebot stack on the Pi is a very involved process. There are too many steps for me to do a quick guide, but the information is all online. Contact me if you run into any trouble as I've encountered a lot myself.

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  • 1 × Raspberry Pi 2
  • 1 × Roomba 780
  • 1 × Kinect for Xbox 360 + Hacked USB Splitter
  • 1 × Minigorilla Multivoltage battery
  • 1 × 7pin Mini DIN + Jumper Wires + USB UART

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jonathan.liang wrote 08/01/2017 at 19:35 • point

Hi fuzzie360, I am trying to create a similar solution using Ubuntu 16.04, Intel RealSense R200, Intel UP Board, and the iRobot Create 2 Programmable Robot. I was wondering if you had any links to the resources you found helpful, especially in regards to 3D mapping and SLAM. Thank you!

-Jonathan

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Wilton R Cruz wrote 05/02/2017 at 01:57 • point

Can integrate phyton with ros ?

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Lucas wrote 02/22/2017 at 17:08 • point

Hello, 

I've installing the same target environment software... But my turtlebot don't work... 

When I try "roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch" : 

I have this error  :  

[ERROR] [WallTime: 1487674200.166287] Failed to contact device with error: [Distance, angle displacement too big, invalid readings from robot. Distance: 0.00, Angle: -420.89]. Please check that the Create is powered on and that the connector is plugged into the Create.

Do you have a solution for this issue ? 

Thanks ! 

Jérôme

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