The project has now concluded with a very successful final demonstration to a number of students and members of staff. First, our “Poomba” robot (the Raspberry Pi Roomba) set out to autonomously explore the environment…
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… and then we used the acquired data to map it (using ROS gmapping)
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So, we have a proper mobile robot setup with ROS, the Raspberry Pi, a wireless network, and a host PC (running all the computation-heavy stuff like the mapping) ready to go for future projects.
Thanks to Mike, Jonathan, and Pete for their engagement and the fantastic work they have delivered.