REEM

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ROS Software Maintainer: PAL Robotics

REEM, the humanoid service robot created by PAL Robotics, can be used for several purposes. Thanks to its autonomous navigation system, its user-friendly touchscreen, and its voice and face recognition system, REEM can find its way in various surroundings and help or entertain people in most public environments.

Besides helping you as a guide or amusing you as an entertainer, REEM can also transport small packages, and its dynamic information point can be used with a wide variety of multimedia applications: display an interactive map of the surrounding area, call up a variety of information (weather, nearby restaurants, airlines travel time, etc...), offer tele-assistance via video-conferencing.

More information can be found in the PAL Robotics website.

Installation

Instructions on how to install can be found in the how to launch REEM in gazebo tutorial for ROS Hydro.

Please refer to the pal-ros-pkg page for source installation instructions for other supported ROS distributions.

Launching a Gazebo simulation

Please read the tutorials to use REEM in a Gazebo simulation.

Library Overview

Basic Configuration

Component

ROS package/stack

Robot-specific Messages

reem_msgs

Robot model (URDF)

reem_description

Hardware Drivers and Simulation

Component

ROS package/stack

Controllers

reem_controllers

Gazebo Simulation

reem_gazebo, reem_plugins

High-Level Capabilities

Component

ROS package/stack

Kinematics

reem_kinematics

Arm motion planning

reem_arm_navigation

Perception

perception_blort, pal_image_processing

Customizing

Since the Fuerte release, setting the USE_RGBD_SENSOR environment variable to true will enable the optional head-mounted ASUS Xtion Pro Live or Primesense Carmine 1.09.

PAL Robotics GitHub organization

Wiki: Robots/REEM (last edited 2014-02-21 14:50:26 by SamPfeiffer)