Hi Ales,
Thanks a lot for your help and share. I'll try it on my Magellan and see =
how it works.
What a coincidence when you also have Magellan running on Ubuntu =
controlled by Player as me, and your name is pretty much similar as mine =
also, that's cool :)
Cheers,
Alex
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Pham Viet Cuong (Alex)
4th Year Undergraduate
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore.
Mobile: (+65) 8225 2678
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From: playerstage-users-bounces@... on behalf of Ales =
Stimec
Sent: Wed 11/7/2007 2:25 PM
To: playerstage-users@...
Subject: Re: [Playerstage-users] Running Player on iRobot's Magellan =
Prorobot
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Hello,
We also have a Maggelan Pro here, so i've had some experience with it,=20
but i've never really managed to write a complete configuration file for =
it.. maybe we can help eachother and the experts on this mailing list=20
can fill in the gaps...
So.. The basic princliple.. You have installed ubuntu on the robot..=20
excellent, because i also have it on our robot.. next, you'll need the=20
configuration file.. I have attached the configuration file which kind=20
of works for me, but not quite.. If somebody has a better (correct)=20
configuration file for the Magellan Pro i'd really really REALLY=20
appreciate it. Ok. You'll find the serial port of the rflex device=20
specified in the configuration file. Change it if it doesn't work for =
you.
Once you have all that, you compile the player on robot's ubuntu (which=20
i have found a bit of challenge, since i need to disable all kinds of=20
stuff when running configure, else it doesn't compile).
Then you simply run player with the specified configuration file. You'll =
find that you need to run player as a root (sudo under ubuntu), or=20
change permissions for the serial port device (rflex). All you do the is =
write a client using player's C or C++ client library. I will also=20
attach an example of that, but it's a server which then accesses player =
(this is because our whole system is/was built using CORBA), so don't be =
confused by all the other non-player-related stuff...
Ok.. i hope this helps a bit... If you have any further=20
questions/information be sure to write to the mailing list..
Cheers,
Ales
PS: can somebody please look at the sonar poses definitions in the=20
attached configuration file and tell me what i'm doing wrong?
Pham Viet Cuong wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm a newbie in this field and was given a Magellan Pro robot to play=20
> with for my project. I'm a bit lost since it is totally new for me. To =
> begin with, I have a few fundamental (silly) questions:
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> 1. To remotely control Magellan from my PC, will I use Player running =
on=20
> my PC to send commands or using SSH to access Magellan and run Player=20
> there? (I've installed Ubuntu 7.1 for Magellan and already installed=20
> Player on it)
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> 2. Can someone please tell me the procedure to start operating =
Magellan=20
> using Player? Especially the configuration with rFLEX. (having =
mentioned=20
> about rFlex, I have this additional silly question: is rFLEX treated =
by=20
> the OS just like a device connected via serial port and so we need to=20
> specify that port in the configuration file to start commanding?)
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> I'm a total newbie, this is not my field of study but since I'm =
assigned=20
> this project, please forgive me for my amateurism :)
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> Thanks a million,
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> Alex
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> _____________________________________
> Pham Viet Cuong (Alex)
> 4th Year Undergraduate
> Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
> National University of Singapore.
> Mobile: (+65) 8225 2678
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