Raspberry Pi and Turtlebot

Question

Hello,

I am very sorry if my question has an obvious answer but:

I am new to Raspberry Pi and TurtleBot and ROS. I know I can get ROS on the Raspberry Pi, I found a tutorial for that. But before I go through the steps to get it all set up, can I use a Raspberry Pi as the TurtleBot Netbook? Is there anything extra I will need? Is there an example somewhere?

Also, I'm a fan of Groovy, will TurtleBot even work with ROS Groovy right now because the installation instructions are blank?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Kelly

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Originally posted by kpowell34567 on ROS Answers with karma: 11 on 2013-02-08

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Comment by DrBot on 2013-02-08:
I was hoping someone already did this! I am working with some folks who think the best approach for ROS on an RPi is to use ARCH - supposedly it is faster. I don't know if it will run as a ROS master host.

Comment by joq on 2013-02-09:
I feel sure that TurtleBot will work on Groovy, once all the problems have been solved. :-)

Comment by kpowell34567 on 2013-02-11:
DrBot- would you be willing to try to work together on this? I am going to start on the process tomorrow, either way I will post the results here. I am hoping to process the kinect data, or at least send it to the work station.

Comment by DrBot on 2013-02-25:
Goal is the RPi will launch the robot and kinnect, but RVIZ will be run on a wifi connected laptop or other mobile device. I tried to build he openni drivers on Rpi Arch, but the buld failed on the 'clean'.

Comment by DrBot on 2013-02-25:
BTW were able to capture data from both a XV-11 neato node, and a Kinnect using the turtlebot kinnect launch on an ubuntu laptop using fuerte. This is all work associated with the Ubiquity robotics project.

Comment by Srinivas on 2013-04-17:
Hi I'm able to launch turtlebot using raspberry pi wheezy with groovy, and teleop using workstation, but kinect is over burden on processor, were you able to process kinect data?

Comment by lui91 on 2014-11-26:
Hi i dont know what im doing wrong, I've installed ros groovy on the raspberry pi and trying to move the kobuki motors with the kobuki node and the keyop but the turtlebot doesn't move. I hope anybody can help me

Answer 1

Are you trying to just control the motors, or are you trying to do the Kinect image processing? I think the Pi is powerful enough for the former but not for the latter.

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Originally posted by Jon Stephan with karma: 837 on 2013-02-08

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Comment by DrBot on 2013-03-04:
The Rpi will capture the data and Rviz will be run on a remote computer.

Answer 2

We are able to run a roscore on Raspian with groovy and use it to control an Arduino.

The build takes forever on a Pi. Once we get a working build, we burn SD cards.

youtube More info in google groups ubiquity_robots

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Originally posted by DrBot with karma: 147 on 2013-03-07

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Comment by kalectro on 2013-03-07:
check out this link, it also provides a sd image with the mobile and perception preinstalled

Answer 3

I am working on getting the kinect to work with my raspberry pi but I have not seen anyone getting a pointcloud from a kinect. So no, right now it is not possible to replace the netbook with a raspberry pi and I doubt that it is possible at all.

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Originally posted by kalectro with karma: 1554 on 2013-03-07

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