Since the last update, I have spent time doing NVIDIA’s 2 Days to a Demo program that contains a lot of resouces about training, retraining and deploying AI models with some of NVidia’s own python notebooks and ROS. I have learnt mainly about classification, object detection and semantic segmentation using...
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ROSCar odometry update
And some cool long-exposure photographs
In the last update, I made some hardware changes and implemented ROS nodes for each part. Except the odometry. Since the hall-effect sensor I had operated on 5 volts and I did not have a voltage level shifter on hand, I decided to use the Arduino Nano (which I was...
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ROSCar - Final hardware updates
Camera mount + new antenna + other updates
Finally after a month of waiting, I received the Wi-Fi antenna which I ordered from Amazon. I was finally able to replace my bulky antenna with these tiny ones that actually fit on the car. Using zipties, I simply attached them to either side of the base plate as shown...
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Assembling the upgraded ROSCar
...with new (self-designed) acrylic parts
This post is not really a blog, more a series of photos. Over the last month, I have been playing around with Autodesk Fusion 360 and getting some real experience with designing my own parts. Last week, I was finally pretty satisfied with my design for new base-plates and decided...
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Software design using ROS1
Implementing sensor data acquisition and actuator control
ROS stands for the Robot Operating Sysem [ROS Wiki]. However, it is not really an operating system, but can be instead classified as middleware that works on operating systems like Ubuntu, and now recently, also Windows. This means that ROS essentially acts as a middle-man or an interface between multiple...
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