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FourTran: Four-wheeled Ground Robot

This repository contains the code for our ground robot FourTran. The robot would be actuated using four brushed DC motors and contains omni-wheels which enable it to perform motions like sway and differential turning.

The main purpose of the robot is to act as a testing robot for our vision and controls algorithms which we later hope to implement on our underwater vehicle.

How to build the repository?

  1. Create a catkin worspace following the guidelines given here
mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
catkin_init_workspace
cd ..
catkin_make
  1. Clone this repository to your catkin workspace
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/AUV-IITK/fourtran.git
  1. Install all dependency packages to run the repository
# TODO List
  1. Build the package using catkin_make
cd ~/catkin_ws
# To maximize performance, build the workspace in Release mode
catkin_make -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

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fourtran's Issues

Using messages with Header information for various tasks

So far we have been using the std_msgs and other message formats that ROS provides. Typically, it might be of interest to use messages with header information as well. I am saying so because having information like when a particular data was published is useful when subscribing to multiple topics to carry out an action so that data retrieved is in-sync. For instance, in stereo vision, we need to have image messages published in the same instant by the sensors.

For buoy task, the message should of the form PointStamped instead of Float32MultiArray. You can also look into tf2 as an alternate option. This would allow also visualization of the measured buoy location in rviz using markers.

Awkward header files linking in C++ code

In the hardware_arduino package, all the header files are included awkwardly, that is they are of the form:

#include "../include/Motor.h"

Instead of that, it should be #include "Motor.h". One way to resolve that is linking libraries and specifying the rules in the CMakeLists properly. It is open to other suggestions.

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