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Hello ROS Fans,<br>
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I would like to announce a new stack for controlling an
Arduino-based robot with ROS. The documentation can be found at:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/ros_arduino_bridge">http://www.ros.org/wiki/ros_arduino_bridge</a><br>
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The stack includes a base controller for a differential drive robot
as well as support for reading sensors and controlling PWM servos.
The code does *not* depend on rosserial.<br>
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The packages have been tested against the ROS navigation stack
(Electric) using a <a
href="http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2502">Pololu motor
controller</a> and <a
href="http://www.robogaia.com/two-axis-encoder-counter-mega-shield-version-2.html">Robogaia
encoder shield</a>.<br>
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This stack comes out of a discussion amongst members of the Home
Brew Robotics Club (HBRC) for extending ROS support to hobby-level
robots using inexpensive and easily obtained hardware. The code was
inspired by Michael Ferguson's ArbotiX drivers and borrows heavily
from it. (Thanks Fergs!)<br>
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--patrick<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pirobot.org">http://www.pirobot.org</a>
& <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hbrobotics.org">http://hbrobotics.org</a><br>
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