[ros-users] An overloaded pioneer

[Pablo Hevia-Koch]

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 <berger at willowgarage.com> 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. <d.bera at tue.nl> 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
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