The SuperMegaBot

Documentation of the SuperMegaBot (SMB) for the ETHZ Robotics Summer School.

• Introduction
• The Simulation
  • Setup
  • Running the simulation environment
• Operating the real robot
• Issue tracking
• History
  • RSS 2019 Edition

Introduction

This documentation aims at introducing basic usage of the SMB software.

A simulation environment based on Gazebo can be used to get a basic understanding of the SMB software and perform basic testing. This simulation is part of the core software setup.

Furthermore, the fundamentals of how to use the real robot are described as well.

The Simulation

For simulation of the SuperMegaBot the Gazebo environment is used. It incorporates a simulation of the 4-wheeled robot including most of its sensors (16 beam Lidar, RGB camera, tracking camera, IMU)

Setup

To setup the simulation, you have two options:

1. Use a docker environment or
2. follow the steps described in the core software documentation to install the software stack in a native Ubuntu 20.04 environment.

Running the simulation environment

Once the SMB software is setup, you can start the simulation by following the steps in How To Run the SMB Software

Operating the real robot

Please follow the steps described in How to use the SMB to operate a SuperMegaBot.

Issue tracking

Please use the issues page to report any issues concerning the robots (hardware and software related issues).

History

The SuperMegaBot was originally developped by the ETH Construction Robotics group. It is now maintained by the ETHZ RobotX Center.

RSS 2019 Edition

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