Device types

Currently supported devices:

  • Ninedof - read values from motion sensor: accelerometer, gyroscope, compass
  • Roboclaw - managing engines and reading current speed of each engine
  • DriveSupport - managing engines with support from laser scanner and motion sensor (depends on Hokuyo and Ninedof)
  • DriveToPoint - moving robot from point to point as per provided list of points, additional information about environment is used like location and view of visible area (depends on Roboclaw or DriveSupport and Location)
  • Hokuyo - used to read values about distance between robot and obstacles located around robot
  • Location - provides information about approximate location of robot in closed area (depends on Hokuyo and Roboclaw)
  • Maestro - managing controller for servo motors (eg. used in arm)
  • PidFollowTrajectory - moving robot by following line (depends on Roboclaw or DriveSupport and Location)

Ninedof

Main functions provided by this driver are following:

  • one-time read data from accelerometer, gyroscope, compass
  • all-time read data from sensors

It is possible to decide which data will be read from sensors. It is possible to set this for one-time and all-time operations.

Roboclaw

Main function which can be done with engines are following:

  • set speed for each engine
  • read current speed from engines encoders

Used unit for speed is mm/s.

DriveSupport

That driver provides identical operations as Roboclaw driver. Used client is the same as for Roboclaw.

DriveToPoint

That driver allow to do following operations:

  • set list of points which should be reached
  • read list of points which were reached
  • read last reached point
  • read list of points which should be reached
  • read point which should be reached as next

Hokuyo

Main functions which are provided by this device are following:

  • one-time read data from scanner
  • all-time read data from scanner

Scan is a set of data combined in tuples which are having angle and distance.

Scanner has a range of activity in which the distance is correctly measured. In our case it is between 50 mm and 5 m. When the distance is higher than 5 m it is marked as zero. When the distance is lower than 50 mm or close to zero it means that is almost zero and it should be treated as too close.

Location

Main function of this driver is provinding information about location. That driver depends on Hokuyo and Roboclaw drivers.