alan_bot

Description

The objective of this project is to create a sandbox environment intended for implementing various methods of automated driving, computer vision, localization and mapping all in one robot.

Required Hardware

• Raspberry Pi (preferably 4 Model B)
• Arduino (Uno is fine)
• 2 DC Motors

Required Software

• arduino-cli (with ros_lib installed)
• ROS Noetic (with rosserial and rosserial-arduino package installed)

Instructions To Get Started

• run catkin_make in alan_ws.
• compile and upload alan_wheels to your arduino:

//Compile Example:
arduino-cli compile -b arduino:avr:uno ~/alan_bot/alan_controllers/alan_wheels/alan_wheels.ino

//Upload Example: 
arduino-cli upload -b arduino:avr:uno -p /dev/ttyACM0 ~/alan_bot/alan_controller/alan_wheels/alan_wheels.ino

• You should now be able to move your robot using the alan_core package found in alan_ws.