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Is it possible to have my roomba 780 controlled via bluetooth and ROS? I found the roomba 500 package but unfortunately the source is no longer available. http://wiki.ros.org/roomba_500_series
Asked: 2016-09-23 08:25:42 -0500
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Last updated: Sep 23 '16
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Check out my driver create_autonomy to handle the serial communication. I'm not sure about Bluetooth. iRobot has a brief tutorial on making a Bluetooth Serial Adaptor
Unfortunately I am using ROS hydro which will not work.
Have you tried building create_autonomy from source with Hydro? I'm curious what build errors (if any) arise.
Yea i was able to build it from source. I was not able to run create_2.launch due to giving errors in the urdf.xacro. After replacing the urdf xacro it works. When running the application the roomba starts to beep and the terminal says serial error - Operation canceled and failed to receive data.
Bascially this is the sequence: /opt/ros/hydro/lib/robot_state_publisher/robot_state_publisher [create::Serial] failed to receive data from Create. Check if robot is powered! [create::Create] retrying to establish serial connection... [create::Serial] serial error - Operation canceled
Did some more testing it fails here
So maybe it is not connecting correctly via bluetooth. Unfortunately i dont have usb cable for roomba.
It is working now for some reason don't know yet but this confirms your library works with bluetooth and roomba 780 Thank you for your help. Edit: Looks like for some reason it isn't working again :P
I am going to make a cable for it but basically your library works with ros hydro except for the urdf xacro file.