News about the electronics of MyzharBot
In the following video you can see one of the first test of the integration of the Ultrasonic Bumper with the ROS framework. The test verifies the response time of two sensors mounted on the front panel of MyzharBot-v4. The ros_ultrasonic_bumper node acquires the ranges from the two sensors and publishes…
The optical spatial sensors mounted on MyzharBot v3 and MyzharBot v4 have a intrinsic limitation that make it unable to perceive obstacle that are too near along its forward motion direction. Asus Xtion Pro Live does not see obstacles nearest than 50cm, Stereolabs ZED does not see obstacles nearest than…
A new ROS package is available to verify the status of the DCDC-USB power converter by Mini-box.com and integrate the information with the ROS diagnostic system.
Tonight (Italy time) Nvidia unveiled its new Tegra embedded supercomputer, the Nvidia Jetson TX1. Jetson TX1 is a computer module based on the Tegra X1 SoC, the evolution at 64 bit of the Tegra K1. The available CUDA cores are now 256, the CPU has 8 ARM A5 cores (4x A57…
Finally the migration to uNav project by Officine Robotiche has been done. The RoboController board now runs the same firmware as the uNav board and all the node to interface with ROS framework are fully working.
MyzharBot has started the migration to a new software configuration. Everything started from the uNav project by Officine Robotiche. Since MyzharBot is part of the new born italian amateur robotics group named “Officine Robotiche“, in the last few months we worked together to unify the software that drives the robots…
Finally the ROS node to interface with the ST iNemo-M1 Discovery is ready and we can get information about the accelerations and the rotation speed of the robot directly from the board.
Today I received the new PCB of the power distribution board … only half an hour of welding and the card is ready to be mounted on board of MyzharBot to replace the two prototypes. A few of new holes for nuts and bolts… the rectangular hole for the power…
In a few days MyzharBot will receive the PCB of the Power Distribution Board. Meanwhile I published the full diagram of the power connection of the different modules of the robot.
On the wave of the success of the funding campaign on TakeOff Crowdfunding, MyzharBot is now waiting for its new board: the Power Distribution v1.0. The Power Distribution board joins the two prototypes visibile on the rear of MyzharBot into one single board providing both protection to power inversion and…
