The new Lidar Lite V3 sensor may be useful for height control of a quadcopter. We want to integrate one of this sensors into our new Asctec Firefly quadcopter for safe indoor flight. The first step of the integration is a …
First let’s start with some basic assumptions. We define a 2D environment of size x_max, y_max. We can easily represent this environment in Python as a Grid of size (x_max, y_max). The resolution of this Grid is not important for …
Potential Field Navigation: Obstacle definition in Python using a Gaussian Field Read more »
The robotic platform Robotino is a nice omnidirectional Robot manufactured by the company Festo. It was surprising for me to find out that the Robot Simulator VREP doesn’t have a working model of this robot, even though there exist an …
Robotino Vrep scene with twist message controller (ROS) Read more »
Vrep has a very nice quadrotor model, however for my research I needed a controller based on velocity Twist messages obtained from ROS. Quadcopter simulated in Vrep I programmed a new LUA control script for the quadcopter based on …
Vrep quadrotor control script using Twist messages from ROS Read more »
The following is a guide on how to start using QtCreator in order to build projects in ROS Indigo (Ubuntu 14.04) with the new Catkin Tools. 1) Install Qt Creator: 2) Install the new Catkin Tools 3) Create a catkin …