Get donkeycar successfully connected to camera and car controls

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RoveCrest project for the EEC193AB course and University Rover Challenge

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Get donkeycar successfully connected to camera and car controls #25

Open mayeusebio opened 3 years ago

mayeusebio commented 3 years ago

Remote access the board and see camera output as well as control the car from a laptop

mayeusebio commented 3 years ago

okay - nevermind on the camera part, we're only using interfacing the car's motor and steering with donkeycar

mayeusebio commented 3 years ago

issues we ran into: running teleop_twist_keyboard with the donkey_car low_level_control.py did not give the intended results, unexpected keys controlled the car

checked the pwm board wasn't faulty by running the jetsonRACECAR throttleControl.cpp program to test limits
tested https://github.com/tleyden/donkey-ros steering and throttle calibration
changed limits in a separate catkin workspace, the magic happened when we ran catkin_make
now works as intended