Hydroponics Robot Part 5 - Lane Navigation
In this blog post, I will be sharing the latest progress I made on my hydroponics robot. I last left it with goal accuracy issues and the wheel tread falling off. I…
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Hydroponics Robot Part 4 - Nav2 Goal Accuracy
Welcome back to the Hydroponics Robot project! In this update, I will be discussing some of the challenges I faced while trying to improve the navigation accuracy of…
Read postHydroponics Robot Part 3 - Mapping Issues Continued
Welcome back to the third part of my series on building a hydroponics robot! In this blog post, I’ll continue discussing the mapping issues I encountered while trying…
Read postHydroponics Robot Part 2 - Map Resolution
In my work with hydroponics robots, I recently faced challenges related to robot localization and map resolution. After consulting with ChatGPT, I discovered that the…
Read postHydroponics Robot Part 1 - Troubleshooting Robot Localization Issues
I recently faced a challenge when testing the robot’s ability to navigate back and forth between two rows of pipes. Despite several attempts, the robot kept getting…
Read postSetting the initial pose using config in NAV2
While working through the articubots tutorials I have been setting my initial pose for nav2 manually using rviz2. It works but it can be a little tedious when testing…
Read postCentring and Increasing the Size of your Global Costmap - ROS2, RVIZ2 and NAV2
Hi everyone,I’ve been following the Articulated Robots tutorial series which has helped me to create a self navigating diff drive robot. One issue I ran into after…
Read postNav2 Localisation not Loading a Default Map
Hi everyone,I finally have my diffdrive robot navigating with waypoints using Nav2 and this great tutorial. However, while trying to use a saved map for localization…
Read postLidar Failing to Start - ROS2 and RaspberryPi
Hi everyone,I’m messing around with a diff-drive robot and have been hitting an intermittent issue with my Lidar: This turned out to be a low power issue. The Pi’s…
Read postros2 controller manager not available - articubot tutorials
Hey everyone,I’m currently working through a great tutorial series on youtube for ROS2. Unfortunately, I ran into a bit of an issue with a race condition in a launch…
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