All news about MyzharBot project
It’s been a lot since latest post… the project has not stopped, but the time is missing, so blog update is confined into limited time slots. Who follows the news on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube knows that also this year MyzharBot was demoing in the Nvidia’s booth at GTC 2016…
Making the final preparations for the participation of MyzharBot-v4 at the next conference GTC 2016 by Nvidia (San Jose, California, APRIL 4-7, 2016), I realized that it would be very helpful to have two guides for the realization of two basic operations for using the Nvidia Jetson TX1 on a…
The power connector of the carrier board of the Nvidia Jetson TX1 is really solid and well done, but the strong vibration of a tracked robot can compromise its stability, so I decided to modify it to be sure that MyzharBot-v4 has a really robust power connection.
The motors that move MyzharBot are really powerful, really too much powerful for the motor drivers mounted on the little uBridge shield used originally by the amazing uNav Motor Control board made by Officine Robotiche. For this reason Mauro Soligo (under a “very little” pressure) realized the new uNavSB carrier board that uses the…
In the following video you can see one of the first test of the integration of the Ultrasonic Bumper with the ROS framework. The test verifies the response time of two sensors mounted on the front panel of MyzharBot-v4. The ros_ultrasonic_bumper node acquires the ranges from the two sensors and publishes…
The optical spatial sensors mounted on MyzharBot v3 and MyzharBot v4 have a intrinsic limitation that make it unable to perceive obstacle that are too near along its forward motion direction. Asus Xtion Pro Live does not see obstacles nearest than 50cm, Stereolabs ZED does not see obstacles nearest than…
A new ROS package is available to verify the status of the DCDC-USB power converter by Mini-box.com and integrate the information with the ROS diagnostic system.
Tonight (Italy time) Nvidia unveiled its new Tegra embedded supercomputer, the Nvidia Jetson TX1. Jetson TX1 is a computer module based on the Tegra X1 SoC, the evolution at 64 bit of the Tegra K1. The available CUDA cores are now 256, the CPU has 8 ARM A5 cores (4x A57…
In the early 2014 Nvidia released the first ARM embedded development kit powered by CUDA, the Nvidia Jetson TK1. As robot maker and Computer Vision lover it was a dream that became true… the price was really competitive, with “only” 192$ I bought a quad core ARM A15 board running at…
On MyzharBot v4 the Asus Xtion Pro Live RGB-D sensor has been replaced by the Stereolabs ZED stereo camera, in order to overcome the limitations of the Primesense technology in outdoor environment under the direct sunlight. The installation of the ZED camera on the Nvidia Jetson TK1 is really straigthforward as…
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