Closed Gredin67 closed 1 year ago
I'm not aware of any demos.
Also, I'm not sure the Roomba has sufficient sensors to run something like the navigation stack. You'll likely want to add a range sensor like a LIDAR or 3D camera or array of sonars. These extra sensors should be driven by a separate computer (like the create_robot driver) and you'd have to figure out how to mount everything to the robot.
In the past, I've toyed around with a battery-powered Raspberry Pi to control the Create platform (e.g. to remote control it or drive it around in simple patterns), but I never attempted running the navigation stack.
I'm going to close this ticket since it is more of a general question, not specifically about the create_robot driver. You might have luck asking your question on ROS Answers or on Discourse.
If you happen to have a Roomba 800, you can try connecting a computer to it's serial port and run this driver. If it's successful, you should see a list of ROS topics that you can interact with to drive it around and get sensor values (e.g. the bumpers).
Is there some demo or tutorial to understand the capabilities of a roomba 896 with ROS1/2 ? @brownem Is it possible to e.g. run the navigation stack on it ?
If not which vacuum cleaning robot would be currently the best option to both clean and play with ROS ?