[ros-users] Three Robots: One ROS Node

[Armin Hornung]

Hi Trevor,
> Recently thanks to the very nice people at Bosch and their remote lab
> efforts, we were able play around with an actual PR2. We wanted to
> share the following video of a single ROS node (svn co
> https://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/experimental/nolan
> nolan) running completely unmodified on three very different robots
> (including the PR2).
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKmqgVUbQQM
>    
That looks really nice!

> Each of the robots is using ar_recog our ROS-compatible wrapper around
> ARToolkit to localize ARTags. A simple PID controller then directs
> them in following. As the Nao does not recognize Twist msgs, we have a
> simple ten-liner rebroadcasting them as Walk msgs, but even here the
> the original control node is running unmodified.
>    
Did you have a look at our current nao stack (v0.2 or trunk) in 
alufr-ros-pkg? The nao_walker node 
(http://www.ros.org/wiki/nao_ctrl#nao_walker) accepts Twist as a cmd_vel 
topic which gets then forwarded to Nao's omniwalk engine (NaoQI 1.6). 
This produces a quite stable walk with a smooth change of the walking 
direction and speed without stopping.

Best regards,
Armin

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Armin Hornung                              Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
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