/MechanumWheelControlVisProg

Script for controlling mechanum wheel car via Visual Programming.

MIT LicenseMIT

Mechanum Wheel Controller via toio™Visual Programming

Version 1.0.0

YouTube -> https://youtu.be/c4uEohRcmfE

Description

This is a tool that enables us to control an omni-directional mobile robot made by two toio™Core Cube and 4 mechanum wheels simultaneously.
It is implemented under toio™Visual Programming environment.
See this article in detail.

Usage

Preparation

  1. Visit Developper version of toio™Visual Programming and open "MechanumWheelControlVisProg.sb3" download from this repository.
  2. Connect with 2 toio™Core Cubes. By using q key, we can light and check Head Cube. Also, we can exchange Head/Tail cubes by 1/2 keys.
  3. Press Green flag.

Operation

Category Operation UI
Omni-direction move 8 directions
by ↑/↓/←/→
omni.png
Turn around
center
(red point)
r + ←/→ rotation.png
Turn around
Head/tail
(red point)
h/t + ←/→ headtail.png
Turn around
l/r wheel
(red point)
d/f + ←/→ fd.png
Check Head q key Light Head Cube in white.
Exchange Head/Tail Cubes 1/2 key 1: Cube1 is Head.
2: Cube2 is Head.
Adjust speed Slider Speedslider.png
Default value is 40.

Working demo

Licence

This software is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE.

Author

Tetsunori NAKAYAMA.

References

toio™
https://toio.io/