Pet-Mk-VIII

Welcome to the Pet-Mk-VIII repository

The Robot Dashboard

Pet series micro robots

The main objective/scope for this repository is to manage the part of the software (and parameter settings) that is unique for this Pet Mark VIII (eight) robot. A.k.a "The Dashboard". ROS repository in the https://github.com/Pet-Series Git-Organizations. Containing multiply ROS1/ROS2-packages.

This dashboard should be able to...

1. Manually operate the various robots (using the joystick).
   ...or any other ROS1/ROS2 bot controlled via topic cmd_vel (command velocity).
2. Launch ROS2 missions (using built in 7" touch display, keyboard and mouse)
3. Patch/tune parameters via trim-potentiometers (as various PID-systems)
4. Monitor in real time robot data (using RViz and RQT).
5. Generic GPIO-connected LED's (most for fun🤪).
6. Generic GPIO-connected buttons (trig, launch ROS2-tasks...)
7. Last minute debugging/patching😇 using the dashboard as developing terminal (using ssh, xRDP or VisualCode)

The journey is the goal

The goul with our work is "It should be fun" and "The journey is the goal".

History: Pet-Mk.VIII early iterations History: The dashboard just starting to take shape. History: Electrical installation is beginning to take place Mechanical & Electrical Done

Exterior Done

Interior Done

ROS2 System

• Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB)
  • built in 7" touch display
  • wireless keyboard and mouse
  • WiFi to communicate with robots
• Ubuntu(64-bit) is used as operating system.
• ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2) is used as middleware.
• Docker to run ROS2

ROS2 Module: Joystick

Using Analog/Digital Converter ADS1115 via I2C (3 of 4 channels in use)

• 3 directions joystick with each a 10K potentiometer.

For more information see repo https://github.com/Pet-Series/pet_ros2_joystick_pkg

Wiring diagram

Node graph

ROS2 Module: Trim Potentiometers

Using Analog/Digital Converter ADS1115 via I2C (3 of 4 channels in use)

• 3x 10K Potentiometers For more information see pkg https://github.com/Pet-Series/Pet-Mk-VIII/tree/main/pet_mk_viii

Wiring diagram

Node graph

ROS2 Module: Buttons

Using direct GPIO-pins.

• 1x button/switch as "main switch"
• 1x button/switch on top of joystick

For more information see pkg https://github.com/Pet-Series/Pet-Mk-VIII/tree/main/pet_mk_viii

Wiring diagram

Node graph

ROS2 Module: LED-strip

Using direct GPIO-pins

• 5x LED with in series with a 1K resistor For more information see pkg https://github.com/Pet-Series/Pet-Mk-VIII/tree/main/pet_mk_viii

Wiring diagram

ROS2 Module: Current & Voltage monitoring

Using INA219 sensor via I2C-bus to measure internal voltage & current status for the Dashboard.
For more information see repo https://github.com/Pet-Series/pet_ros2_currentsensor_ina219_pkg

Wiring diagram

Setup

⚠️This documentation section is under construction

Setup Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Do some boring installation stuff...

Setup Docker

Install & setup docker stuff...

Setup git repositories

Ubuntu Shell - Clone repositories

~$ mkdir -p ~/ws_ros2/src
~$ cd ~/ws_ros2/src
~/ws_ros2/src$ git clone https://github.com/Pet-Series/Pet-Mk-VIII
   ...
~/ws_ros2/src$ git clone https://github.com/Pet-Series/pet_ros2_joystick_pkg.git
   ...
~/ws_ros2/src$ git clone https://github.com/Pet-Series/pet_ros2_currentsensor_ina219_pkg.git
   ...
~/ws_ros2/src$

Setup ROS2 workspace

I don't have ROS2 installed directly on my host. I chose not to install ROS2 directly on the host/SCB/RPi, but to run ROS2 via Docker - Therfore must this step be done from within an interactive ROS2-Docker container.
Ubuntu Shell - Build/Initiate ROS2 Work Space

~/ws_ros2/src$ cd ..
~/ws_ros2$ 
~/ws_ros2$ colcon build --symlink-install
~/ws_ros2$ source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash
~/ws_ros2$ source ./install/setup.bash

Launch ROS2 nodes

Launch individual nodes one by one...

~/ws_ros2$ ros2 run pet_mk_viii_joystick joystick_node
~/ws_ros2$ ros2 run pet_mk_viii pet_buttons_node.py
~/ws_ros2$ ros2 launch pet_mk_viii panel_led_0..4_subscribers.launch.py
~/ws_ros2$ ros2 run pet_ros2_battery_state_pkg pet_battery_state_ina219_node

Or by one launch file...

~/ws_ros2$ ros2 launch pet_mk_viii pet-mk-viii-bringup.launch.py
   ...
~/ws_ros2/src$

External references

• http://wiki.ros.org/