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Special Forums Hardware Arduino Robot Tank Project Post 303043242 by Neo on Wednesday 22nd of January 2020 05:04:57 AM
Old 01-22-2020
Some FYI on this project.

I'm currently waiting on KeyeStudio, the supplier of this RobotTank kit, to come off their Chinese New Years holiday and provide us with the basic "demo" Arduino sketches for this, instead of the Mixly graphical "code" they provide.

There are a few reasons for this. First, I'm personally not into graphical programming (like Mixly, which seem like a child's programming toy to me) and strongly prefer the C++ like Arduino IDE coding. Second, when I downloaded the mixly archive file provided by KeyeStudio, my Avast anti-virus scanner complains the archive contains some malware; and I'm just too busy to debug and "de-virus" the KeyeStudio Mixly archive.

KeyeStudio has kindly informed me they would get me the actual Arduino demo sketches for this robot kit after the Chinese New Years holiday is past, sometimes in February. I was going to make a video on the "virus alert" when unarchiving the mixly archive from KeyeStudio, but I've just been busy and making a "look at this virus alert" video for a supplier has not been a priority here. KeyeStudio was not satisfied with my photos of the virus alert(s) and requested a video!


I imagine, however, I'll start coding this robot long before I get the demo Ardunio sketches from KeyeStudio, but let's see what happens. My plan is to go beyond the kit and add some other sensors plus some other command and control boards. Let's see how long this kit can hold our attention. We have been playing with the kit little by little, not in a hurry, since we are waiting on supplier to get us the Arduino demo sketches before diving too far into this.

More later as we progress......

Note: The spelling is correct. It is KeyeStudio, not KeyStudio.
 

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robot-pmaptest(1)					      General Commands Manual						 robot-pmaptest(1)

NAME
robot-pmaptest - occupancy grid map creation tool SYNOPSIS
robot-pmaptest [options] <logfilename> DESCRIPTION
robot-pmaptest is utility demonstrates the basic functionality of the pmap library and serves a handy mapping utility in its own right. Given a Player logfile containing odometry and laser data, robot-pmaptest will produce an occupancy grid map of the environment. OPTIONS
-g disable the GUI (run in console mode only). --range_max range maximum effective range for the laser in meter (default: range saved in logfile). --position_index index index of odometry device in logfile (defualt: 0). --laser_index index index of laser device in logfile (default: 0). --num_samples number number of samples in particle filter (default: 200). --resample_interval number number of scans between resampling steps. --resample_sigma width width of resampling gaussian. --num_cycles number number of optimization cycles in the fine phase (default: 100). --robot_x position initial position of the robot on the x-axis. --robot_y position initial position of the robot on the y-axis. --robot_rot rotation initial rotation of the robot in degrees. --grid_width width width of the grid in meters (default: 64.0). --grid_height height height of the grid in meters (default: 48.0). --grid_scale scale scale of the grid in meters per cell (default: 0.10). --laser_x position position of the laser scanner on the robot. --laser_rot rotation rotation of the laser scanner on the robot in degrees. --robot_hostname hostname the hostname of the robot to verify in the logfile. --robot_hostname hostname the hostname of the robot to verify in the logfile. --skip time amount of time to skip between log entries. --range_resresolution resolution of the laser (only used inlodo, not lodo2 which is currentlyused). --action_model_xx factor believe factors in the change of the robot's pose. --action_model_rx factor believe factors in the change of the robot's pose. --action_model_rr factor believe factors in the change of the robot's pose. AUTHOR
Player was written by Brian Gerkey <gerkey@users.sourceforge.net> and contributors. This manual page was written by Daniel Hess for the Debian Project. SEE ALSO
The HTML documentation in /usr/share/doc/player/html of the robot-player-doc package. robot-playervcr(1) Player May 2009 robot-pmaptest(1)
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