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Garmin Lidar Lite v3 sensor characterization

By Raúl Acuña Godoy Posted on December 20, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized 8 Comments

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 …

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Potential Field Navigation: Obstacle definition in Python using a Gaussian Field

By Raúl Acuña Godoy Posted on June 27, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

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 …

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Robotino Vrep scene with twist message controller (ROS)

By Raúl Acuña Godoy Posted on July 6, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

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 …

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Vrep quadrotor control script using Twist messages from ROS

By Raúl Acuña Godoy Posted on June 19, 2015 Posted in Quadrotors, ROS, Vrep 9 Comments

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 …

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Developing in ROS Indigo using QtCreator

By Raúl Acuña Godoy Posted on June 18, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

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 …

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