Python keyboard input for teleop [user interface]
I recently ask myself how to implement the user interface of the teleop program of my robot. This is the first version, the most basic and the most straightforward one, so the user interface will be...
View ArticleGazebo and graphics cards
EDIT: after further trials, I finally found that the NVIDIA driver was a good move, and therefore graphics acceleration was involved in the simulation rendering. Even if the simulation is working with...
View ArticleThinkPad Optimus BIOS settings and side effects on NVIDIA Gallium driver
The NVIDIA Optimus technology is not yet supported by Ubuntu, waiting for the release of the Bumblebee project (or the port to the official repositories). You can deactivate the feature in the BIOS...
View ArticleUsing the NVIDIA chip and driver on a ThinkPad laptop running ubuntu (with...
The last week, I stepped into the muddy border between the open and close source software. I needed to install the NVIDIA proprietary driver on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is famous for a straightforward and easy...
View ArticleYet another Vim cheat sheet [personal]
Vin is the superseded text editor of VI, an historical utility of UNIX. It has been initially developed on the Amiga OS (the last offspring of Amiga?) and is now available in most of Linux...
View ArticleSimple youBot teleop program delivered
The first version of my teleop program for the youBot is finally delivered. This program has been written in Python and can be downloaded from GitHub. You are very welcome to try it on your side. This...
View ArticleWorkspace exploration of the KUKA youBot
It’s now time to go deeper in the manipulation capabilities of the youBot. After the simulation in Gazebo and the first joints level manipulations with the teleop program, the purpose of this...
View ArticleGitHub on several computers
I have written in a previous post how to use GitHub as a single developer for backuping code sources. This furthermore allow you to enjoy the code versioning. You may now want to work on several...
View ArticleFirst result of the youBot workspace exploration
The last week, I have started a new assignment, determining the dexterous position of the KUKA youBot. This exploration is done through a numeric and systematic exploration of the joint values. This...
View ArticleKUKA youBot inverse kinematics (simplified)
I have written a short piece of code to solve the KUKA youBot inverse kinematics, based on the RRR workspace generator used for plotting the workspace of the KUKA youBot. You are prompted for an x...
View ArticleNew (and cheaper) domain name
Today was a big move for this blog. I changed the domain name from the initial .cc to .fr. You may have wonder why a .cc TLD. Well, since the beginning I choose this zombie name. No real reason except...
View ArticleMy new robotics blog with octopress
During the fall of 2013, I had a look back at this blog and I have not been fully satisfied with what I have done. The main dissatisfaction is the lack of consistency. I have addressed several topics,...
View ArticleMy techno time capsule for 2013 [crazy year]
Yes, this year has been crazy for me. A lot of things have changed and I am definitively far from the stability I was looking for two years ago. The difference this time may be that things changed for...
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