Kobuki visualisation in CATIA via DYMOLA (Modelica-Plugin)
Hello guys, I’ve seen many posts about the Kobuki in this forum so I thought I could ask my question here. If that would be a misassumption please tell me. So I got a project assigned to make a visualization of the Kobuki in CATIA using basic CAD and systems engineering. It should move exactly like the real one, the real one should be controllable from here (teleoperations) [best case: with a joypad or joystick] and parameters of the software should be editable in CATIA, tested in the simulation and then be sent to the Kobuki. That’s a big task for me, because I’ve got just a bare minimum of wisdom in regards of robotics and informatics. I’m currently in my 8th semester of mechanical engineering. My problem so far is that I don’t know where to start to get to my destination. Could somebody perhaps tell me how he would start? That would be nice. Regards
what? do you use ROS with CATIA? how?
That's the thing i should manage somehow. Using the tools in the CATIA API while i get the data from the robot using ROS. I'm not fully sure if i understand everything but that sounds logical in my ears.
so you design a robot via catia? please tell me about your work.
There is already an model in CAD of the robot. I think the next step would be to animate it with systems engineering, so it moves like real. Then there comes the rest: Implementing Joypad-control, definition of the parameters to tweak the robot, get the parameters synchronized with ROS, and so on.
you seem to be an expert. tell me how did you learn catia? what is the benefit of connecting it with ROS?
thanks!
By any means I'm no expert. That's the reason i ask for help. I learnd CATIA with free Springer-literature and tutorials of my university they gave me so i could teach other people to use it. Also a lot of video education on youtube. The benefit of connecting it is just learning i suppose.