A new package for launching and teleoperating Pioneer robots in different modes

Amine Bendahmane

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Jan 18, 2017, 7:45:56 AM1/18/17

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Hi,

I'm new to this community, and I'm currently learning ROS.

We had a P3DX in our lab, so I installed ROS on it and started playing a little bit.

Since it's not easy to get started with Pioneer robots on ROS (compared to other robots such as Turtlebot), I created two packages to simplfy the basic tasks for Pioneer robots familly:

http://wiki.ros.org/pioneer_bringup

Inspired from turtlebot_bringup, it provides some launch files to start the pionner robot with laser and/or camera node automatically (I'm using RosAria to communicate with Pioneer hardware)
It can be interessting to add a launch file to start the Kinnect nodes too.

http://wiki.ros.org/pioneer_teleop

Provides nodes and launch files to operate the Pioneer robots using the keyboard, sockets or command line (using ssh).

Well, it still simple, but I hope it will be useful for someone :D

N.B: I'm starting learning Gazebo too, if you have any good ressources for simulating P3DX / P3AT on it?

Reed Hedges

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Jan 18, 2017, 4:38:31 PM1/18/17

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Hi Amine, thanks for making these packages available! I’ll try to take a look at them when I can.

I have a repository that includes some Gazebo configuration (and misc launch files) at http://github.com/MobileRobots/amr_robots_config. I last tested the Gazebo stuff a little while ago. The P3AT configuration seems to work pretty well, I think the P3DX works too but may be missing some stuff. If you end up working on that at all and have any fixes, changes or suggestions please send them (here, or via github pull requests/bug reports).

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