Mid of March 2016 I visited the RobotChallenge in Vienna. http://www.robotchallenge.org/
RobotChallenge is Europe's largest competition for autonomous robots. I was amazed to meet and exchange with teams from so many foreign countries. Since 2004 teams from 56 countries with more than 2,000 robots have competed in 15 different disciplines.
(read more …)I am sure that to most of you setting up a multi repo project is an absolute "nobrainer" since you probably have worked with Idea IDE for many years. This post is for the rest of us who struggle with setting this up correctly for a little while. I used Eclipse in the past where one can open as many projects at a time as necessary. Later I moved on to sublime editor where one does not see projects - it takes a different approach by working on folders and files.
With CLion we take another approach. In the Jetbrains family of IDEs like CLion one window represents exactly one project. You can open multiple IDE windows but for different projects. Do not get me wrong - I like the simplicity and beauty of this approach!
My embedded C project (now) has the following structure:
With the Pololu magnetic encoders I am going to measure motor rounds per interval and from this I am going to derive the robot's velocity and position. I am going to feed the additional information into the robot algorithms and I expect significant improvements in steering accuracy and velocity control.
(read more …)If you visited my site before then you probably know that I am always watching out for some cool robotics stuff. I was looking for some C code samples for magnetic encoders when I stumbled over something really exiting. I didn't knew about BB-8 before... Now I can't wait for X-Mas to go the movies!
(read more …)I never posted that I had success to run FreeRTOS on LPC1343. The simple sample uses tasks to blink a LED. I am going to use tasks to schedule sensor readings, PID controller, break controller etc. for my epiciii robot.
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