Hello ROS Fans,
I would like to announce a new stack for controlling an Arduino-based
robot with ROS. The documentation can be found at:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/ros_arduino_bridge
The stack includes a base controller for a differential drive robot as
well as support for reading sensors and controlling PWM servos. The code
does *not* depend on rosserial.
The packages have been tested against the ROS navigation stack
(Electric) using a Pololu motor controller
<
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2502> and Robogaia encoder shield
<
http://www.robogaia.com/two-axis-encoder-counter-mega-shield-version-2.html>.
This stack comes out of a discussion amongst members of the Home Brew
Robotics Club (HBRC) for extending ROS support to hobby-level robots
using inexpensive and easily obtained hardware. The code was inspired
by Michael Ferguson's ArbotiX drivers and borrows heavily from it.
(Thanks Fergs!)
--patrick
http://www.pirobot.org &
http://hbrobotics.org