Questions tagged [mobile-robot]
A robot which is capable of moving from one place to another, usually of its own volition.
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Calculate information matrix for graph slam
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I am new to SLAM. I am working on graph slam where I need to do pose graph optimisation. For this requirement information matrix is required between two edges for which the transformation has ...
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Reinforcement Learning in global and local path planning for mobile robots and self-driving car
Most RL courses start with grid world problem like this where robot has to navigate from start to end and RL helps in generating the optimum policy. (State-action pairing).
I am not able to relate ...
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Can a state lattice planner be used purely as a local planner?
I've been reading a bit about state lattice motion planning recently. The question I would like to ask is if a lattice-based motion planning system can be used purely as a local planner without a ...
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Why reciprocal velocity obstacle generates oscillation free navigation compared to VO
I am tryin to understand this paper about "reciprocal velocity obstacles for real-time multi-agent navigation" and to compare it with the original Velocity Obstacle approach.
I can not ...
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How to design a PID controller for boat?
I have a boat with two trusters and a trajectory planner which is based on the bicycle model. In order to control the boat, the linear velocity of each truster has to be provided.
The following ...
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Calculating wheel linear velocity from body velocity
A frame {b} is attached to the centre of a robot chassis. The planar configuration is given by $(x,y,\phi)$ where $\phi$ is the angle between the x axis in {b} and the x axis of a fixed reference ...
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Small AGV robot for ROS application
I am looking for an off-the-shelf small AGV which runs or could be used with ROS. It may include some basic sensors like a camera, an IMU, an Ultrasonic range finder, etc.
Really appreciate all the ...
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Autonomous harvesting robots. What are model possible components and interactions for the entire system? [closed]
I found a video which talk about best autonomous robots that use IA technology to harvest crops. The video is very interesting because, the “ecosystem” of each robot varies a lot from company to ...
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How to actually fuse sensor using Extended Kalman Filter
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I'm working on 4-omniwheel mobile robot. It have encoder on each wheel and MPU 6050 IMU. The robot positioning suffer a great error because slip, so i try to increase the accuracy of ...
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Range of a heading angle [0,2π) or [−π,π)
Consider the unicycle dynamics in 2D plane:
$$\begin{array}{l}
\dot x = v\cos \varphi \\
\dot y = v\sin \varphi \\
\dot \varphi = \omega
\end{array}$$
What is the range of the heading angle $\phi$? ...
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Difference between CHOMP and DRL
in terms of motion planning, what are the difference between gradient-based motion planning (for instance, CHOMP http://www.nathanratliff.com/thesis-research/chomp) and deep reinforcement learning?
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Mobile robot behaviour [closed]
I want to ask people who have designed the control/behaviour system of the mobile robot? As far as I know, architecture might be implemented as a finite-state machine or a behaviour tree. What are the ...
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How to find angular velocity using pure pursuit algorithm?
I have implemented the pure pursuit algorithm for my differential wheeled robot as described in the following paper:
http://www.enseignement.polytechnique.fr/profs/informatique/Eric.Goubault/MRIS/...
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How to calculate the ground truth of your own simple dataset for testing your SLAM Algorithm?
I have tested my SLAM algorithm on EuRoC, TUM and KITTI Datasets. But I would like to test on my own custom dataset. Moreover, I already rectify how to make my own dataset in TUM dataset format, but I ...
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Rviz Status Error in Costmap: Update area outside original area
“update area outside of original map area” is the error I get when visualising the topic /move_base/global_costmap/costmap. The cost map displays correctly, there is nothing on google or the docs to ...
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Need help with counting the number of robots on the circumference of a circle much larger than the communication radius of the robots
I have a circle of radius 300 cm on whose circumference robots stop after moving in the environment. The robots only have a communication radius of 10 cm such that they can fit 6 robots along the ...
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How are landmarks updated with respect to each other in SLAM?
One thing I don't understand in EKF SLAM is how landmarks interact with each other. From my understanding this interaction only happens during a loop closing event.
When a loop closing occurs, how do ...
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UKF - sigma point creation - Mirroring the chol matrices
maybe this is a stupid question but i came across a problem with my ukf implementation.
I use chol() in matlab for my sigma point creation instead of the normal square root of my covariance matrix. Do ...
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How to design a behavior tree with ROS1 framework
I am confused about how high level my behavior tree has to be. For example, if I want to create an autonomous robot that goes from point A to point, what would be a reasonable behavior tree?
For now, ...
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UKF - Correction Step [SLAM] - Only compute the sigma point of the vehicle pose and the specific landmark that got spotted?
i want to implement an UKF Filter for SLAM but i cant seem to wrap around the update step.
When computing the innovation matrices and everything, do i need to compute the sigma points in respect to ...
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SLAM Initialize new landmark - specifically the covariance
Im trying to bring an EKF - SLAM to life but it keeps on failing. Specifially, I think, my mistake lies in the initialization of the new cone <-> covariance. I multiply the Jacobian (derived ...
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How to handle curved paths in maze
-I have an RPi on Ubuntu with ROS (Kinetic). The task is to solve a maze. I have implemented a left-hand algorithm to navigate through the maze.
-The robot is equipped with 3 ultrasonic HC-SR04 ...
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Extract laser scan from a map and known location
If we have the map of an environment (an occupancy grid for instance) and precisely know the pose of the robot within it. How can one reconstruct what the laser scan should look like at a given ...
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Fusing cross-correlated measurements for mobile robot's localization using unscented kalman filter (ukf)
I'm currently working on a mobile robot's indoor localization. On the perception side, I can only rely on a 2D lidar and wheel odometry.
I have used these sources as input of different localization's ...
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What is the mathematical relation between phi1, phi2, phi3 and motor PWM values for 3 wheel omni drive robot?
My question is that I cannot deduce the relation between phi1, phi2, phi3 values of the omni robot (3 wheeled) and the motor's PWM values, since I'm planning on designing the robot to perform "go ...
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Sprockets for steering
I'm planning to drive the steering of a AWD rover using stepper motors. Is it usually a good idea to use sprockets and chains for that? Would the precision typically be too low for steering? The ...
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Is Image Based Visual Servoing a non-linear controller?
Is Image Based Visual Servoing a non-linear controller? I think it is as the Image Jacobian has square terms of u & v (image-plane coords).
Where $p_u, p_v$ are the width & height of each ...
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Compute how well a laser scan matches or overlaps with its environment given a map of the environment and location of the robot is known
If I knew the exact location of my robot and have an accurate map (for eg. an occupancy grid map) of the environment beforehand, how can I compute a measure of how well the laser scan data agree with ...
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How do I compute the feedforward terms in a control law using Matlab?
I have the following situation. I have computed the linear and angular velocity which are the controls for a mobile robot, which have the form:
$v_d=v_{fb}+v_{ff}$
$\omega_d=\omega_{fb}+\omega_{ff}$
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Robot movement between point A and B with fixed angle and step length
I am working on a robotic path finding problem for my personal project and I am stuck on how to get from point A to point B.
Please note that this is a visual robot, as I am looking to implement it ...
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Matlab code to take time derivatives
I have a velocity command, which is:
$v=k_1\rho cos(\alpha)$
where each quantity $\rho$ and $\alpha$ depend by the time.
I would like now to take the time derivative of this, in order to use it as ...
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How do I apply a disturbance observer to a mobile robot?
I have to design a observer to estimate disturbances which are applied to a unicycle model. So, the unicycle model with disturbances is:
$\dot{x}=v cos\theta + d_x$
$\dot{y}=v sin\theta + d_y$
$\dot{\...
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Robots and RTOS
Many computing platforms used by robots are not real time(ex Jetson).
How are real time constraints handled in real robots? Are all software transfered into a hardware solution with real time ...
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Calculate body speed in m/s with weight in the equation?
UPDATE: I have clarified my question for answerers to better understand what I am asking
If I have a flywheel, like the one shown in this image, and I know the torque, weight distribution, and weight. ...
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Worm gearbox for steering
I'm planning on making a smallish off-road rover (15-25kg net weight) with 4-wheel steering and I was wondering if it'd be a good idea to use (self-locking) worm gearboxes for steering. I've thought ...
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Hector_navigaton on ROS Melodic error
I'm a newbie on robotics, and currently, I'm working on a project to make an autonomous robot that can mapping the surrounding environment and decide the shortest route towards the goal while avoiding ...
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What are the best approaches and limitations for calculating the Inverse dynamics for a floating base quadruped?
Given a quadruped standing on all fours, or trotting with 2 legs down/2 up, I've seen a few methods of computing inverse dynamics. All derive from centroidal momentum physics, and I think all distill ...
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Problem designing acceleration inputs controller
I am reading this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224635390_The_motion_control_problem_for_the_CyberCarpet
in which is implemented a cartesian regulator to bring the position $(x,y)$ ...
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How to estimate proper heading angle
I obtain the heading or yaw angle from a source which I am not allowed to modify, but when the angle goes more than +180 or -180, it interchanges either from 180 to -180 or the other way around. Any ...
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Determining Base Configuration Tsb from End-Effector Configuration Tse for youbot
Hello there, hope you are doing great.
Right now I am trying to control youbot to pick and cube and place it to a certain position, on simulation. However, I believe that the reference trajectory is ...
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How to implement a 4 Mecanum wheel Robot kinematic model Practically in code?
Above is the Kinematic model of a 4 wheeled from https://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/465/InTechOmnidirectional_mobile_robot_design_and_implementation.pdf, My question is how to use these kinematic ...
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How to do odometry for 4 mecanum wheeled robot?
I need to do odometry for a 4 mecanum wheeled robot for indoor applications. Is it possible to do it with just wheel encoders and IMU sensors? If possible, how? It will be of great help if someone ...
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How do I call Matlab code into Simulink for doing a simulation for doing plots?
I have built a simulink model for performing cartesian regulation on a unicycle:
and plot the results with a Matlab code
but, I am not very confident with Simulink and so I don't know how to call ...
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error with dimensions in Simulink
I am trying to simulate a cartesian regulator for a unicycle with Simulink and I am having some problems.
My simulink model is the following:
and when I run it I get the following error message:
so ...
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Robotic Platforms Similar to the PiBot(Locobot)
I am brain storming platforms to use for a project I am working on. I'm looking for an mobile platform with a manipulator attached. I originally was focusing on the PiBot, but after doing some ...
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Universities offering courses about Drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAVs]) [closed]
I am trying to gather some information about university courses offered about drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).
At the beginning, I thought that I would have found way more than what I found and ...
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Likelihood field sensor model (Probabilistic Robotics, Thrun et al., p.169-174)
I am currently working on the "likelihood field" sensor model (aka "endpoint model") by Thrun et al. (book: Probabilistic Robotics, Thrun et al., p.169-174)
In this context I have ...
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irobot create 2: random changes in driving speed
I am trying to make the Create2 dance a specific choreography. I´m not using the sensors, I just let it drive and turn for a specific amount of time. In general it works fine.
But after working with ...
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When a permutation matrix is desired for transforming camera frame to world frame?
When dealing with rectified images, why would the inverse of a simple permutation matrix $$P =
{\begin{bmatrix}
0 & -1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & -1 \\
1 & 0 & 0
\end{bmatrix}}^{-1}$$
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Where to buy cheap motors and mechanical parts for hobby robotics applications? [closed]
My kids want to get into robotics, where Online can I buy the motors (dc,ac,stepper...) and mechanical assembly (nuts, bolts, sheet metal, springs, rods...) for a very affordable price, you know I ...
