Project 2: Using Built in Tools

Summary: In this second project, we will continue  to explore the ROS2 system, this time looking at mapping and navigation - two topics which we will look at in more depth after spring break.

Details:

• Follow this tutorial to create a map (which you will save on the laptop) Drive the robot around using teleportation inside of DMF294 and the prep-room
  https://turtlebot.github.io/turtlebot4-user-manual/tutorials/generate_map.html
• Second practice sending the robot to an arbitrary point in the map, from an arbitrary starting point. using these directions.
  https://turtlebot.github.io/turtlebot4-user-manual/tutorials/navigation.html

The Graded Demo:

in the week after spring break we will setup times for each group to demo the project (unless IT gets the BSU_Robotics network working, in which case we can demo in class.

In the demo, I will position the robot in the room, and pick a location in one of the two connected rooms which you will note on your map, Your robot will navigate to the final location with no further help from you.

The Graded Paper:

For the class after the demo - bring in a paper (hard copy - one per group) double spaced in proper business English discussing your robot using the following outline

• Introduction (what did you do and why should anyone care)
• Hardware (a paragraph or so explaining the robot and its capabilities) - you can reused part of this from project 1
• software (a paragraph explaining the software you used from ROS)
• Pitfalls (I'm going to have a group of undergrads doing this class soon, what do you wish you knew before you started - if I were to give this paper to those undergrads what would help them?)
• The main part of the paper A fairly detailed discussion of the ups and downs of this built in navigation, including a discussion of how things went during the demostration.
• conclusion/evaluation, how is this robot to work with so far.