Kingfisher M100

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ROS Software Maintainer: Clearpath Robotics

Kingfisher M100 is an agile, easy-to-use unmanned surface vehicle (USV), suitable for research and rapid prototyping applications. Kingfisher includes an onboard FitPC2 running our clearpath_base driver node, and a long-range radio modem for communication with other Kingfishers and your base-station equipment.

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Library Overview

  • clearpath_base: Provides a driver node which consumes geometry_msgs/Twist messages on the cmd_vel topic and interprets them as movement commands to Kingfisher. This node provides topics with voltage and current status, as well as compass heading.

  • clearpath_teleop: Provides a node to translate joy/Joy messages into geometry_msgs/Twist messages, and a roslaunch file with parameters appropriate for Kingfisher.

  • clearpath_kingfisher_localization: Provides an outdoor position estimate for Kingfisher, based on GPS and compass data, with RTK if available. Coming soon.

Basic Configuration

Component

ROS package/stack

Robot-specific Messages

clearpath_base

Hardware Drivers and Simulation

Component

ROS package/stack

Actuator Drivers

clearpath_base

Sensor Drivers

clearpath_sensors

High-Level Capabilities

Component

ROS package/stack

Teleop

clearpath_teleop

Navigation

clearpath_kingfisher_localization

Media

Wiki: Robots/Kingfisher/legacy (last edited 2013-01-02 14:05:40 by MikePurvis)