Homebot is a low cost open source robot designed for research and experimentation with ROS.
Basic features include:
- head that can rotate 360 degrees horizontally and 180 degrees vertically
- monocular camera fitting with a laser ranger finder
- IMU with magnetic compass for navigation
- ultrasonic range finders and IR distance sensor for forward obstacle and cliff detection
- Raspberry Pi 3 for running ROS and high-level control
- charging dock
Demo:
Shortcuts:
To deploy all code changes to the production robot, run:
fab prod deploy.push
To just quickly push up Python code changes, run:
fab prod homebot.deploy_code