Re: [ros-users] iCreate Roomba with ROS

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Author: ros-users@code.ros.org
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To: ros-users
Subject: Re: [ros-users] iCreate Roomba with ROS
Hi Gonçalo,

I'm not sure my understanding on your next step. I think you may start
to look over "irobot_create_2_1". I've successfully run iCreate with
this packages.

Best,
Soonhac

Quoting Gonçalo Cabrita <>:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I recently started to explore ROS. I ran the tutorials and got one
> of our Hokuyo lasers working with ROS. The next logical step is
> probably to get a robot moving. Here at the lab we have a bunch of
> Roombas.
>
> We have been using Player on the Roombas with a plugin driver I
> wrote specifically for the 500 series. I would like to re-write that
> driver to run native on ROS.
>
> We also have a couple of erratics and I noticed that there is an
> erratic_player node inspired on the erratic player driver, however
> I'm not looking to do a similar thing, I want to write something ROS
> native (assuming I understood right what was done there).
>
> Could anyone advise me on which direction to take next?
>
> Thanks for the support,
>
> Gonçalo Cabrita
> ISR - University of Coimbra
> Portugal
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