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TL;DR Control essentials

TL;DR Control essentials

Connect to the robot

  • Connect a LAN cable to roboy’s pelvis and a device of your choice (a PC or a switch)

  • Jetson Nano is running a DHCP server on the 192.168.1.XXX subnet

  • Jetson Nano has a static IP 192.168.1.100

  • To connect to the ROS master in each terminal run (or add to ~/.bashrc):

    • export ROS_MASTER_URI='http://192.168.1.100:11311'

    • export ROS_IP='192.168.1.XXX' - replace XXX with your IP

  • To connect to the Jetson Nano board:

    • ssh roboy@192.168.1.100

    • pw - shared on request

    • you will be directly connected to the terminal with all nodes

    • to switch between panes and scroll - read about tmux

tmux 101

  • Ctrl+A + - switch to the pane above (other arrows for other directions)

  • Ctrl+A + PageUp - scroll up in the current pane (PageDown - down)

  • Ctrl+A + D - detach from tmux - and go to default shell (the processes will keep running)

  • tmux attach - connect to a running tmux session

  • Ctrl+A + “ - split current pane vertically

  • Ctrl+A + % - split current pane horizontally

Control the robot

You can use the Dashboard on http://192.168.1.100:1880/ui

Alternatively, use ROS topics:

  • if you are sending commands not from Jetson Nano, clone and install roboy_communication beforehand:

    mkdir roboy_ws/src -p cd roboy_ws/src git clone https://github.com/Roboy/roboy_communication.git -b roboy3 cd .. catkin_make source roboy_ws/devel/setup.bash

    Refer to Control page for the full software stack installation

  • to send the joint targets:

    • rostopic pub /roboy/brain/control/joint_targets sensor_msgs/JointState "header:
      seq: 0
      stamp: {secs: 0, nsecs: 0}
      frame_id: ''
      name: ['shouler_right_axis1']
      position: [-0.5]
      velocity: [0]
      effort: [0]"

  • to find out joint names run rosparam get /joint_names, joint limits can be extracted from model.urdf - see Joint Control and Inverse Kinematics for more info

  • refer to Motor Control for low-level motor control

  • to send the emotion:

    • rostopic pub /roboy/brain/cognition/face/emotion roboy_control_msgs/Emotion "header:
      seq: 0
      stamp:
      secs: 0
      nsecs: 0
      frame_id: ''
      emotion: 'shy'"

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