Capstone project healthbot

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1pHgB031ck666_LJpps_zopNTI3XrwL

Deep learning depth point cloud from monocular camera was the best pointcloud produced, but there's no video for it in the playlist above.

PID control

this package is used http://wiki.ros.org/pid to start PID control with coppeliasim

start roscore
open coppeliasim file rosControllerCoppeliaSimDiffDrivettt.ttt
roslaunch motor_control pid_coppeliaSim.launch
run this file hbot_ws/src/motor_control/src/pid_simulation.py
For manuel tunning use rosrun rqt_reconfigure rqt_reconfigure

Motor Control

I am using a NodeMCU board, but you can use an arduino or any board instead but make sure to use the correct pins and set the PWM limit for your board, also remove the termICACHE_RAM_ATTR from befor the interrupt functions as that may cause errors depending on what board you're using. Also if you're using an Arduino Uno change the MAXPWM to 255 and the MINPWM to 0. In case you're using a NodeMCU make sure to power off the motors when you boot or upload code to the mcu because having power on certain pins during launch can cause failures and weird behavior for the NodeMCU. Also the pin numbers printed on the board don't match the acutal GPIO numbers, hence different pin numbers in code, use a pin out diagram that has the GPIO pin numbers.

I am only using two hall sensors, one for each motor, so we only need two interupt pins to run the motor encoders for odometry instead of 4 interupt pins motor control connections, without sensorslast_time

Odometry calculation

this blog was good and also the youtbe tutorial by adventures in STEM

For my motor I have:

gear box ratio 1:21, so for each wheel rotation (output) I have 21 motor rotations. 21 motor revs = 1 output rev
11 pulses (ticks) per motor revlotion
21 x 11 = 231 pulses per wheel rev
wheel diameter = 6.5 cm
distnace convered per 1 wheel rev = diameter * pi = 20.4 cm
231 pulses = 20.4 cm, so 1 pulse = 0.08cm, so to go 1 meter we have 1250 pulses
distance between wheels is 17cm So we get distnace traveled per wheel = Diameter*pi*counted ticks/231 or deltaX = d*pi*ticks/tickesPerRev now we need linear velocity and angular velocity w, go to the blog post I put it has a neat explanation

Battery and Power

current draw

motor stall at 12v = 1.2 A
nodeMCU max at 5v = 0.4A
dragon board at 5v usb max = 0.9A
total = 2.5A , my lipo is 3.3A so I am good

Legacy information, kept for old project reference

The Ros and gazebo files are in the src dir, the coppeliaSim files in the coppeliaSim dir

Navigation

Basic object detection is made with ultrasonic OpenVslam is used for one camera navigation RTAB-Map is used for stereo camear and lidar http://wiki.ros.org/rtabmap_ros useful stereo package http://wiki.ros.org/stereo_image_proc/Tutorials/ChoosingGoodStereoParameters other useful resources https://automaticaddison.com/working-with-ros-and-opencv-in-ros-noetic/ https://docs.opencv.org/master/dd/d53/tutorial_py_depthmap.html

To start the ROS project

at the root of the workspace do catkin_make && source devel/setup.sh
Do roslaunch pkg launchfile u can choose from the ones below

launch rviz roslaunch healthbot rviz.launch

launch gazebo using an urdf model roslaunch healthbot urdf_world.launch

launch gazebo with the sdf model roslaunch healthbot sdf_world.launch

Joint_state_publisher allows you to control the joint values, u can check it out in Rviz

About the model

At the time of making this robot Rviz has problems with Gazebo's files, .sdf, so one has to convert to urdf files first. The robot model was constructed in the gazebo gui, so the output is an sdf file, we need to convert that to urdf file to use in ros use the command to convert, this is already done but if you want to make edits dont edit urdf directly unless u know what u r doing rosrun pysdf sdf2urdf.py src/healthbot/sdf/healthbot/model.sdf src/healthbot/urdf/healthbot.xacro

Note You will NOT be able to convert unless the gazebo sdf verison is 1.6 or below so go to the sdf file and edit it to 1.6 in the sdf verison tag

To check if your urdf is correct use this command check_urdf healthbot.xacro

There are many 'partial' models, both in the sdf and the urdf dirs, but the main robot model is the 'healthbot' model, everything else is just kept there for reference

I switched to orbslam

openvslam got shutdown so I had to switch to orbslam here are the instructions on how to run it below

follow this but u can run the built in r200 mono launch file https://medium.com/@mhamdaan/implementing-orb-slam-on-ubuntu-18-04-ros-melodic-606e668deffa camera calibration rosrun camera_calibration cameracalibrator.py --size 8x6 --square 0.26 image:=/usb_cam/image_raw camera:=/usb_cam --no-service-check

if u wanna test your own camera make sure to calibrate it and put the camera.yaml file to the parameter server ( u can use the medium tutorial above, it has a section on how to do it)
run rviz with the config file in the orbslam2 and you will see params that you can edit
my launch file has a bunch of remaps this is cuz my camera publishes to topic /usb_cam, while the code listens to topic /camera

how to run

open the usb camera using roslaunch usb_cam my_usb_cam_test.launch
open orbslam2 docker (the ros fork, not the main repo) and launch the r200 mono launch file (or whatever launch file u made) 2-1. docker run -it --name orbslam --net=host bd0dd564b380 or if u already have the stopped container then just do docker start -i the-container-id 2-2.roslaunch orb_slam2_ros myLaunch.launch
open rviz with the mono config that I made, it is in the config dir rviz -d ./rviz_config_mono.rviz

Run SLAM with coppelliaSIM simlation instead of real robot

it is the same as how to run steps from above, only that we are doing it with coppeliasim instead of real camera

run the copelliaSim folder that has slam in its name
run the orb slam launch file roslaunch src/orb_slam_2_ros/ros/launch/mySimulationLaunch.launch
run rviz just like from above

Misc

This is not important, but if u have troubles with gazebo make sure GAZEBO_RESOURCE_PATH has the path to the sdf file if you will load from sdf. https://roboticsbackend.com/oop-with-ros-in-python/ -- good example code

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