Digging into ROS2 Launch Files
Setting up akros2_drive and akros2_bringup
Its been nearly a month since my last update, my full-time job took over most of my time as we neared an important phase in our project. But since that is resolved now, I dove back into where I left off last time. Last time, I had completed the micro-ROS...
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AKROS2 micro-ROS firmware (part 3)
On-line PID tuning + PS4 control
This week was all about tuning the PID controllers in the AKROS2 firmware and testing it with a PS4 controller. In Part 2 (the last update), I talked about the slow performance of the controllers when I plugged in the PID gain values from the AKROS firmware. So, I need...
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AKROS2 micro-ROS firmware (part 2)
Custom messages and Calibration
This week, I planned on taking a few days off since I felt a bit burnt out at work. Surprisingly, it took only a few hours of binging Taskmaster for me to start feeling better. On day two, I started working on the AKROS2 robot, with a focus on updating...
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AKROS2 micro-ROS firmware (part 1)
with micro_ros_arduino and Linorobot2
After spending a lot of time learning and experimenting with micro-ROS/ROS2, this week I finally started porting the AKROS software from ROS Noetic to ROS2 Galactic. Since I had just finished experimenting with micro-ROS and Teensy 4.1, I decided to start porting the micro-ROS firmware first. As I mentioned before,...
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