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### How to control the velocity of a mobile robot?

I have a differential drive robot whose linear velocity and angular velocity is to be controlled. The current strategy for doing that is: A high level path tracking module spits out the reference ...
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### A powerful pull/rotate device that provides a certain (controllable) force?

I don't know how to call the device I'm looking for (or need to create), maybe you can help me with terminology too so I can at least search.. I want something that either rotates or pulls with a ...
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### Is it to possible to measure a room exact with rplidar?

I want to measure a room using rp3+, rplidar, ROS and SLAM. It should be easy possible to create mapping of the room. But how exact it would be? Is it possible to get less than 1 cm precision over ...
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### How do I know if a wheel and stepper motor fit together?

Looking for some wheels and a stepper motor to make a self balancing robot. How do i know if the stepper motor shaft can fit in the wheels? I cant find the shaft diameter when looking at some ...
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### Partial CoM, the velocity Jacobian and Control

New to robotic arms here. I am currently working with a 6-DOF robotic arm shown below: I have derived the FWD Kinematics and mapped the joint angles and the resulting end-effector positions. When I ...
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### Cannot get 3 DOF bicycle model to run correctly

I'm trying to simulate a vehicle using a dynamic bicycle model but I cannot seem to get it working. If I set a constant steering angle the lateral velocity grows exponentially and creates impossible ...
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### Is there a straightforward 16bit microcontroller?

Background Some of my sketches or ideas require a common data buss to all perph chips. The issue This way issue still lays before me, how then, if I am going for a common data buss. how do I ...
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### IK - 3dof - iterative

I want to solve for a 3dof planar arm using gradient descent to approximate end position. Now I am a little confused about the formula and was wondering if someone can help me out. This is my thought ...
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### Regarding kalman filter implementation

I think I might have originally posted this in the wrong stack exchange forum, link. I think this might be the right place, I am not sure if posting again is considered "bad style", I apologize if ...
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### /odom topics not matching ERROR

I have an existing ROS workspace which was built in C++. I am trying to implement a node built by The Construct in python which reads distance travelled from the ...
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### 3D points registration with given pairs

I have pairs of matched 3D points (10~50 points) with outliers included. I would like to find the transformation that aligns the source points to the destination points. To prevent reinventing the ...
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### How to plot the 3D camera trajectory from a VSLAM output

I am totally new to VSLAM algorithms and would want to plot the path followed by the moving camera. I am using the open source implementation of ORB_SLAM2 for a rgb-d camera on benchmark dataset. The ...
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### Serial Communication between RaspberryPi and CC3D?

I have built a quadcopter with a CC3D FC, using LibrePilot for configuration. Everything is smooth with the tx/rx I used to command the quad with but now I would like to effectively use the RPi as a ...
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### question about spatial velocity in the book <modern robotics>

I think the equation(3.73) should be: $\dot p-w_s$x$p=\dot p-\dot p=0$ have no idea how it can be wrong and don't know the difference between infinitely large body and a body just include the fix-...
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### Can't set ID to Dynamixel MX-64

I have 2 WidowX robots which I already successfully address ID's for all the MX-28 and AX-12A servos using ROS code in the Arbotix controller with the Dynamanager 1.3 on a Mac but I can't detect any ...
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### How does sensor fusion help in robot localization

Good day... Sorry for bigner quesion, but really I need some friendly explanation rather than long reference I have 9 dof mpu9250 imu and gps. I found some source that calculate euler angle in ardunio ...
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### Line Following Acute and Right angles and Proportional steering help

I am trying to figure out the logic for a line follower with the path shown in the attached image. I am having trouble with <= 90 degree angle turns. So far, I have been using the logic where if ...
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### Is there a specific way or module I can use to stream video data from a camera hooked to an Arduino Uno board?

I'm currently thinking about the feasibility of creating a robot which streams live video footage and other data such as temperature, humidity, etc. to a smartphone. Is it possible to do this on an ...
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### IR sensor spacing in sensor array relative to line width

I'm trying to build a line follower bot that follows a 3cm wide black line. I have a line sensor array with 6 analog sensors spaced 1cm apart. This means that in an ideal situation, i.e bot going ...