ROVER.md

Delivery Robot

Hardware

• Rover: http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/58587/index.htm
• Pixhawk (Autopilot): https://pixhawk.org/modules/pixhawk
• Raspberry Pi 3: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/
• Ultrasonic Range Finder: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11309
• Pixy-Cam: http://cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/Pixy_Regular_Quick_Start
• Radio: Turnigy TGY i6s

Software

PC

• TightVNC Client: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php
• Putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
• Mission Planner: http://ardupilot.org/planner/docs/common-install-mission-planner.html

Raspberry Pi

• OS: ubuntu-mate-16.04-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img
• ArduPilot (ArduRover, Firmware of Pixhawk): http://ardupilot.org/rover/index.html
  • https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot
• MAVLink (native protocol of Pixhawk):
  • http://qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/start
  • https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/mavlink/
  • https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink
• MAVProxy (Connects Raspberry Pi to Pixhawk, autostarted): http://ardupilot.github.io/MAVProxy/html/index.html
• Dronekit (Simple Python API to control the rover): http://python.dronekit.io/
• ROS (robot operating system): http://www.ros.org/ to start:
  • source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash
  • roscore &
  • roslaunch mavros px4.launch
• MAVROS (connects ROS to Pixhawk): http://wiki.ros.org/mavros