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What flight firmware stack is most common in aerial robotics research environments?
It is usually a combination of 2 different pieces software. Generally a higher level software which implements most of your autonomy, advanced navigation algorithms, and a lower level software which ...
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How to get manufactured part from CAD file?
I think this is a great question.
The two basic options are make it yourself or have someone else make it. EDIT: check the bottom for a third option...
Make it yourself
To make it yourself you ...
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Beginner question about software for calculations
For most applications, I think the calculation you describe is good enough when selecting hardware. You want your arm to be able to have some lift capacity at the worst case, which is when the arm is ...
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How to become proficient in software development for an aspiring roboticist?
If you make a career of robotics, you will come in contact with a lot of languages, a lot of libraries, and a lot of systems.
The more you know about the fundamentals, the easier it will be to adjust ...
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What Software Is Used For Autonomy Software Simulation?
There are quite a lot options for this, each with different features, strengths and weaknesses. A few examples:
Gazebo (as mentioned by edwinem): very well known in the robotics community, some would ...
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Is interacting with registers the only way software and hardware interact?
most people told me about using registers and memory addresses to talk to devices
Shortly, that is the correct answer - if you are interested how software will (ultimately) talk to hardware. How ...
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Multiple robots in ROS Gazebo SITL with separate MAVlink/MAVproxy codes
I feel like I'm having to do a lot of work to understand this question. You are trying to simulate two vehicles, and... what's the issue? You are trying to simulate them in Gazebo, right?
Have you ...
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Beginner question about software for calculations
For your first example, Max-Weight = Torque/arm-length. Going beyond that, there are several software applications and API's out there that can be a big help for these kinds of calculations (matlab or ...
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idea for web application in robotics
web based robotic simulator will be a good project. You can do simulators like gazebo and morse
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All-in-one GNSS localization solution (hardware+software)
I have used both KVH CNS-5000 and the Xsens MTi-G-710 that do what you are asking. Both these products provide on-board sensor fusion. The CNS-5000 uses an EKF and I am not sure about the Xsens. They ...
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How do I interface with a drone?
With a conventional RC vehicle, I would probably suggest getting your own receiver-transmitter set (something like XBEE transceivers or similar) and completely gutting the original system, but with a ...
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Artificial Intelligence Software Packages: Professionals, University education is oft' a step behind. What's actually being used?
I am not sure which end of the AI work you intended, so this may not apply. If you are working disconnected from hardware one might be better off with straight MATLAB / Octave.
If you are planning to ...
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idea for web application in robotics
There are the awesome "ROS Robot Web Tools" http://robotwebtools.org/ that give your ROS enabled robot a web interface.
We use it as high-level interface for many of our service robots, as we can then ...
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where can I get openinterface.py?
It looks like openinterface.py itself is not easily found anymore, but you can probably use instead pyrobot, which is based on openinterface.py. Pyrobot is an interface for Roomba and Create 1, not ...
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Which is best way to calculate inverse kinematics for scara robot?
The solution of the inverse kinematics problem and the Denavit Hartenberg method (or algorithm) are two very different things. The DH provides rules on how to define coordinate systems, but it does ...
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Which is best way to calculate inverse kinematics for scara robot?
The geometric method of computing inverse kinematics (which you are calling the trigonometric way) and the Denavit-Hartenburg method result in the same kinematic equations. Neither is better, ...
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How do I get competent in using c++ for my projects?
I would say that in order to learn C++ up to an acceptable level there is no shortcut: you learn it by using it. And more often than not you learn it by using it together with others that know more ...
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How can I leverage my experience with the JVM and Android to do some hobby-level building and controlling robots at home?
Have you taken a look at LeJOS? It's a port of the Java VM and SDK to the various Lego MINDSTORMS robot kits. The Lego kits themselves are quite capable as hobbyist robotics kits go, I bought the NXT ...
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How to make a CNC machine from scratch?
How does a controller translate a move x 20 units to moving the stepper x amount of steps and keep dimensional accuracy? If the CAD G-code says move 200 mm in the x direction, how to you translate the ...
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May I get this robot arm to be controlled via drawing, not programming?
I doubt you will find an out of the box solution, but you can piece together a solution if you have some programming knowledge.
There are many image to G-Code converters out there. You can use one of ...
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What does software-based parameterization in ISO 13849-1 mean?
ISO 13849 is a standard for safety systems. It defined among other thing safety performance levels that define the amount of risk mitigation. This standard is referenced by ISO 10218 which is the ...
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How do robotics companies track faults in production systems?
Company size and market expectations shape the specific tools used. Almost always kept confidential to some degree.
Issue tracking, remote diagnosis (and device security), and stochastic monitoring ...
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What Software Is Used For Autonomy Software Simulation?
If you want to test everything together then you need to setup a simulator like Gazebo(integrates well with ROS which I assume you are using). Other options could be Airsim, or some custom simulator. ...
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ShopBot router software crashes after machine moves past limit switch
We have a ShopBot at our Maker Space and have had a similar issue. In short, adjust the distance between your limit-switch trigger screws and your hard-stop. If your hard-stop is too far away from ...
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Free Multibody Dynamics Software?
If you are comfortable with programming, you can use a free physics engine, like Bullet or DART to create your model. There are also many other ones.
If you are less comfortable with programming (as ...
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Is a compilers course or a databases course more relevant for robotics engineering?
I think the database course is much more related to robotics than the compiler course. Almost every robot needs some kind of long term memory to store tasks, parameters or facts it learned about ...
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using motor controllers with Raspberry instead of Arduno. Is it just me or is everyone ok with bad sofftware support?
The Roboclaw documentation is excellent.
The PDF is available for download. I never even looked at a library for something that I could just use by following the manual. The RoboClaw is an extremely ...
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using motor controllers with Raspberry instead of Arduno. Is it just me or is everyone ok with bad sofftware support?
I looked fast Roboclaw on Pololu and there was libraries for C++. For Rapsbery you just need the underlying Wiring level (or the part which is actually used) modified to connect to RPi to its GPIO ...
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Ontology/marketplace of robotics components and integration environment (BPEL or CAD for robotics)?
Do professional robot designers use semi or fully automated toolchains to implement physical systems?
Of course. Especially if you broaden your definition of robot to electro-mechanical system. ...
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Kuka KR-C4 Documentation
The Kuka KRC4 Controller can be programmed using the KRL language. This official Kuka manual gives a good introduction to both basics of hardware and software.
KRL is a high level programming ...
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