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R4:快速可复现机器人研究开源硬件控制系统

R4: rapid reproducible robotics research open hardware control system

School of Engineering and Physical Science, University of Lincoln(林肯大学工程与物理科学学院)

Chris Waltham, Andy Perrett, Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox

AI总结:

针对机器人中间件与物理电机接口的复杂性问题,提出R4开源硬件控制系统,通过OSH印刷电路板对接Arduino Giga和开源硬件组件,支持ROS2,可构建标准化、完全可复现的开源机器人研究平台。

摘要:

任何机器人的关键组件都是机器人中间件软件与物理电机之间的接口。新型机器人通常使用封闭和开放电机驱动器的任意、混乱组合,以及易错的物理安装、布线和连接器来实现接口。目前需要一个标准化的开源硬件(OSH)组件来抽象这种复杂性,就像Arduino为小型组件接口所做的那样。我们提出了一种OSH印刷电路板来一劳永逸地解决这个问题。在高层侧,它作为一个异常大且坚固的扩展板与Arduino Giga接口,从而与现有的开源软件栈对接,并提供ROS2接口。在低层侧,它与现有的新兴标准开源硬件(包括OSH电机驱动器和继电器)接口,这些硬件已可用于驱动完全开源的轮式和臂式机器人。这使得创建一系列标准化、完全开源硬件、完全可复现的研究平台成为可能。

英文摘要:

A key component of any robot is the interface between robotics middleware software and physical motors. New robots often use arbitrary, messy mixtures of closed and open motor drivers and error-prone physical mountings, wiring, and connectors to interface them. There is a need for a standardizing OSH component to abstract this complexity, as Arduino did for interfacing to smaller components. We present a OSH printed circuit board to solve this problem once and for all. On the high-level side, it interfaces to Arduino Giga - acting as an unusually large and robust shield - and thus to existing open source software stacks. A ROS2 interface is provided. On the lower-level side, it interfaces to existing emerging standard open hardware including OSH motor drivers and relays, which can already be used to drive fully open hardware wheeled and arm robots. This enables the creation of a family of standardized, fully open hardware, fully reproducible, research platforms.

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