You should redirect your question to the Pioneer Users mailing list at http://robots.mobilerobots.com/wiki/Pioneer-users_Mailing_List ;) Keep Creating, Pablo On 18 October 2010 16:16, Eric Berger wrote: > This definitely sounds like a hardware issue, not a ROS issue. > > It sounds to me like you're putting too much weight on the Pioneer, and > you'll have to either find a larger platform or find a way to shrink your > payload. > > --Eric > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Bera, D. wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> We ran succesful tests using the ROS navigation stack and ROSARIA with a >> Pioneer 3 platform. We then modified this platform to carry a payload of 35 >> -40 kilos. It is stable but wont budge since there is some sort of limiter >> inside that cuts off power when the current gets above some threshold. >> Looking into the ROSARIA package gave us hope that it may be possible to >> remove these limits by modifying some parameters. We tried maximum >> accelaration, velocity etc. It did improve a bit but cannot yet go over a >> carpet for instance. It would be of great help if we could get some insight >> into how we could resolve this issue. >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Debjyoti Bera >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >