The Home Assistant can be a great base for the home automation system. In this post, I’ll show you my first Home Assistant configuration for a couple of devices. Read More »Home Automation System Based on the Home Assistant
Rust is a modern programming language intended for high-performance systems. Let’s check if it makes sense to use it in robotics systems based on the ROS 2 framework. Read More »How to Start with Rust in ROS 2 Based Robotics Systems?
The graphical user interface (GUI) connects with a DC motors controller and visualizes the current, the speed, and the position of the motor. It can be also used to tune… Read More »A GUI Application for the DC Motor Controller
A BNO055 is a single-chip inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor created by Bosch. It’s a small SMT component, so for development purposes, it has been prepared a board with this module – Adafruit BNO055. It supports both I2C and UART interfaces, so it can be easily connected with the computer using a USB-UART converter (for example, this one). Read More »The ROS Driver for the IMU Sensor Bosch BNO055
I would like to introduce a set of ROS tools that uses depth data for multiple purposes related to the autonomous navigation of mobile robots. The open-source code has been written in C++ and published on GitHub as a ROS package depth_nav_tools. Already it’s available also as a ROS2 package. Read More »Depth-based ROS Tools for Autonomous Robots Navigation
To extend the capabilities of the Tinker Board, especially for the robotics applications I decided to install a ROS 2 Humble on it. Such a board with the installed ROS 2 could be successfully used as a simple robot brain that takes data from sensors, processes them, and generates some actions (for example velocity commands for motors driver). Read More »ROS 2 Humble on Tinker Board with Armbian
The motors controller is designed to control up to four brushed DC motors. It uses 32-bit ARM-based microcontroller. The device is suitable to control the drives of mobile robots with two or four wheels. There are also implemented a lot of other features, so the device can be used for other purposes as well. Read More »DC Motors Controller for Mobile Robots with ROS Support
The presented mobile robot was equipped with the autonomous navigation system in ROS framework, mainly based on data from Microsoft Kinect sensor. The robot has four independently driven wheels and is rather small. The width and length are about 35 cm, height with the Kinect sensor is below 50 cm. The pictures show the real robot and visualizations of it. Read More »Four-wheeled Mobile Robot with Autonomous Navigation System in ROS
The graphical user interface (GUI) for the BLDC motor state visualization is a part of a bigger project related to BLDC motors control. I have introduced a device that is an integral, hardware part of the project in a previous post – A Device for the Monitoring of the BLDC Motor Controller. The software was written in C++ with Qt and Qwt libraries. Read More »A User Interface for the BLDC Motor Monitoring Device
A device has been designed and created to monitor and visualize the state of the BLDC motor controlled by a dedicated controller. Moreover, it has been used to generate a set value for the controller and to tune the controller settings. Read More »A Device for the Monitoring of the BLDC Motor Controller