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The ATRV 2


 
The ATRV2 robot comes with a 'baseserver' which provides us with integrated odometry readings.  It reads the rotation of the (skid steered) 4 wheels and estimates (x,y,theta) of the robot in a frame relative to the starting location of the robot (when the baseserver was started),


The x  and y are measured in meters.  Theta is measured in radians.  With the robot facing the positive x direction theta is 0.  With the robot facing the positive y direction theta is PI/2.

The x/y position is for a point at the center of the robot.  You can see that the robot often turns in place causing theta changes but no x y changes.

The time stamps have been converted to seconds.

Thats about it except to say that the theta changes provided are nearly useless except for when the robot is not turning.

I have been able to fuse this data with the gyro data to get good dead-reckoning estimates.

I gave this sensor type number 10.  I hope that doesn't end up with some conflict.
 
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 John Folkesson

johnf@nada.kth.se