PatrolBot robot

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The Research PatrolBot, developed by MobileRobots, is a differential-drive robot to carry payloads and sensors over all normal indoor surfaces in wheelchair-accessible facilities. The PatrolBot is an all-purpose indoor base, it can travel at speeds up to 2 m/s, and can carry up to 40kg over flat surfaces.

Configuration parameters for patrolbot robot

You can :

You can set these properties in your scripts with <component>.properties(<property1>=..., <property2>=...).

  • HasSuspension (bool, default: True)

    Determine if the underlaying robot has suspension, i.e. wheels can move independently of the body of the robot

  • HasSteering (bool, default: True)

    Determine if the wheels turn independently of the body of the robot.

  • FixTurningSpeed (double, default: 0.0)

    Overwrite the value of the distance between wheels in the computations of the wheel speeds. This effectively changes the turning speed of the robot, and can be used to compensate for the slip of the wheels while turning. The real distance between wheels in the robot is 0.624m. By forcing a distance of 1.23m, the robot will turn over a smaller radius, as would a two wheeled differential drive robot. If the value 0.0 is used, the real distance between wheels is used.

Services for PatrolBot robot

This component does not expose any service.

Examples

The following example shows how to use this component in a Builder script:

from morse.builder import *

# creates a new instance of the robot
patrolbot = PatrolBot()

# place your component at the correct location
patrolbot.translate(<x>, <y>, <z>)
patrolbot.rotate(<rx>, <ry>, <rz>)

# define one or several communication interface, like 'socket'
patrolbot.add_interface(<interface>)

env = Environment('empty')

Other sources of examples

(This page has been auto-generated from MORSE module morse.robots.patrolbot.)

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