ROS Robot Navigation

An overkill Arduino obstacle avoidance robot using ROS

Setup

1. Initialize catkin workspace

mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/jimmyasyraf/robot_navigation.git

2. Build the package

cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make

3. Run ROS core

roscore

4. Run rosserial to establish serial connection with Arduino. Make sure Arduino port is correct

rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyACM0

5. Run the package

rosrun robot_navigation obstacle_avoidance.py

6. View logs

rostopic echo /distance
rostopic echo /direction