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If you're working in a solely planar environment and only looking for yaw, a gyro would be nice, that is all the turtlebot has.

This listing gives you a non-exhaustive list of drivers available as a jump off point. http://wiki.ros.org/Sensors

If you find a hobby IMU from adafruit / similar vendors, changes are there's a simple minimum example for reading values somewhere you can wrap in ROS in 30 minutes, many themselves will have unsupported ROS drivers from other users.

If you're working in a solely planar environment and only looking for yaw, a gyro would be nice, that is all the turtlebot has.

This listing gives you a non-exhaustive list of drivers available as a jump off point. http://wiki.ros.org/Sensors

If you find a hobby IMU from adafruit / similar vendors, changes chances are there's a simple minimum example for reading values somewhere you can wrap in ROS in 30 minutes, many themselves will have unsupported ROS drivers from other users.