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Arduino + Dual H Bridge Motor Driver

asked 2013-12-29 03:38:51 -0500

updated 2014-01-28 17:18:54 -0500

ngrennan gravatar image

HI all, I have an Arduino UNO and a dual H bridge MOSFET motor driver. I want to control two motors using this controller and Arduino via ROS(Fuerte/Groovy/Hydro). I can write a sketch to arduino just for run motors (digitalwrite & analogWrite). But I want to know how to communicate Arduino & ROS. Can I use ROSARIA instead of rosserial_arduino? If yes, please give me a clue to write an Arduino sketch.

Motor Driver from ebay, (3-36V-10A-Peak-30A-Dual-Motor-Driver-Module-board-H-bridge-DC-MOSFET-IRF3205)

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answered 2013-12-29 04:35:26 -0500

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ROSARIA is specific to Pioneer and other robots from MobileRobots/ActivMedia and the communications protocol is in many ways Pioneer-specific. If you want to use a similar design (robot controller on Arduino communicating with ROS nodes on a PC) it might be easier to use your own, smaller protocol.

Other people who know more about Arduino can give some advice about that, but if you search this site you may find people doing similar projects, or you may find existing code on wiki.ros.org that could serve as an example.

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answered 2013-12-29 17:02:24 -0500

noonv gravatar image

for example - my ORCP protocol for 4WD robot

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answered 2013-12-29 09:43:22 -0500

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updated 2013-12-29 09:44:17 -0500

Not sure if this will help you, I'm running pretty much the same setup, using a pair of motors with an Adafruit dual H-bridge motor controller. While I have not yet built that part of the code, I have been able to get a sonar to talk to my Arduino Mega (duh, that's the easy part) and then was able to get the Arduino to publish the sensor data to a ROS topic. I have gone through the tutorials here and had no trouble writing a functioning publisher and subscriber. Based on that, I'm planning on just running the Arduino as a node that will receive motor commands from ROS, and send sensor and odometry data to ROS. Pretty straight forward in theory, the execution at the ROS level has been a little tricky thus far, but at the Arduino no problem at all as long as you are using the proper data types (otherwise the buffer gets filled and rosserial shuts down the connection)

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hey, it's been more than 3 years but I am working on something like this. can you please check my question?

Rai gravatar image Rai  ( 2017-03-10 08:56:32 -0500 )edit

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