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how to use stepper motor for differential drive

Iam trying to use 2 stepper motors as a differential drive with an arduino but iam lost as this is not something i have done before any help that i can get would be greatly appreciated Iam trying to get it to interface with the navigation stack but it doesnt allow for steppers

Asked by Michael_Talmage on 2017-08-02 09:07:18 UTC

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This question really has nothing to do with ROS. Perhaps try https://robotics.stackexchange.com/ Or maybe an open source project like the ePuck could serve as some inspiration.

Asked by jarvisschultz on 2017-08-02 11:16:20 UTC

As long as you have a robot that can listen to a twist message and follow that command, publish an odometry message, and support a planar laser scanner, then you can run the navigation stack on your robot. http://wiki.ros.org/navigation#Hardware_Requirements

Asked by jarvisschultz on 2017-08-03 10:54:05 UTC

If you are using stepper motors, you just need to make sure that your interface between the ROS computer and the steppers (microcontroller, industrial stepper controllers, whatever) supports these requirements.

Asked by jarvisschultz on 2017-08-03 10:55:15 UTC

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