[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [TurtleBot] TurtleBot3 with OpenManipulator is released

Taehoon Lim(Darby) ros.discourse at gmail.com
Fri May 11 07:51:52 UTC 2018



Finally TurtleBot3 got his own arm. 
This arm is called **OpenManipulator**.

OpenManipulator is composed by 4 joints and 1 gripper. This manipulator are simply assembled on the TurtleBot3 Waffle and Waffle Pi. Furthermore, because it has 5 Dynamixel which is same motor of TurtleBot3, anyone can friendly control to use [Dynamixel SDK](https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/DynamixelSDK) or [Dynamixel-Workbench](https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/dynamixel-workbench). If you want to get more information about OpenManipulator, please watch presentation in ROSCON 2018 (https://vimeo.com/236147296)

TurtleBot3 with OpenManipulator has many function as SLAM, Navigation, Perception(For example, find an AR marker or a Ball) and Manipulation. So it can navigate anywhere based on map data it created and find an AR marker to use its own camera. Moreover, it is able to pick some object and move another pose to place it. 

Below video is shows special demo. You can see it how it works.

https://youtu.be/P82pZsqpBg0

Next video includes a tutorial which explains how to play pick and place demo on Gazebo simulation.

https://youtu.be/DLOq8yNcCoE

You can get a more information about setup or launch it in WIKI page and source code is uploaded on Github.

[WIKI]

http://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/openmanipulator/

http://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/turtlebot3/manipulation/#manipulation

[Source Code]

https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/open_manipulator

Please feel free to ask anything to reply :)
Thanks





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