Welcome to LSA’s Platypus Boat guides

About the Boats

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Autonomous Systems Laboratoty - PUCRS

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Summary

• Getting Started
  • Bill of Materials
    • Mandatory Resources
    • Optional Resources
• ROS Quick Start Tutorials
  • ROS Background
    • Lecture 1: Start a ROS Master Node
    • Lecture 2: Understanding ROS Topics, Nodes and Messages
    • Review Questions
    • Online Test
  • ROS Programming Basics
    • Lecture 1: ROS Publisher and Subscribers in C++ and Python
    • Review Questions
    • Lecture 2: ROS Services in C++ and Python
  • Turtlesim Cleaning Application
    • Lecture 1: Introducing the Cleaning Application
    • Lecture 2: Moving in a Straight Line
    • Lecture 3: Rotating Left and Right
    • Lecture 4: Go to Goal Location (PID Controller)
    • Lecture 5: Grid and Spiral Cleaning Application
    • Review Questions
    • Do-It-Yourself
• GAMS/MADARA Quick Start Tutorials
  • GAMS/MADARA Background
  • GAMS/MADARA Programming Basics
  • GAMS/MADARA Simulation
• Setting Up the Raspberry Pi
  • Installing the OS
  • Setting Up the OS
  • Installing ROS
    • About ROS
    • How to install the driver and its depedencies
    • Known limitations
    • How to test it
  • Installing GAMS/MADARA
    • About GAMS/MADARA
    • How to install the driver and its depedencies
    • Known limitations
    • How to test it
  • Hooking Up Peripherals to the Rpi board
    • Xbee radios
    • adafruit GPS
    • Emlid RTK GPS
    • IMU
    • Raspicam
    • Atlas water probes
    • Lowrance side scanner
    • Water sampling
  • Setup Video streamming
  • Testing the Rpi
    • Possible Faults
• Setting Up the Jetson Board
  • Installing the OS
  • Setting Up the OS
  • Installing ROS
    • About ROS
    • How to install the driver and its depedencies
    • Known limitations
    • How to test it
  • Installing Tensorflow
    • About Tensorflow
    • How to install the driver and its depedencies
    • Known limitations
    • How to test it
  • Connecting the Jetson to the Rpi board
  • Testing
    • Possible Faults
• Preparations for the Field Test
  • Before Packing up for the Field Test
  • Packing up for the test
  • On the test field
• LSA Contributors

Disclaimer

The purpose of this document is for the use of LSA group only, but we open it in case it can be usefull for someone else. Thus, we dont fill obliged to give any technical support, although we might help in some special situations. In addition, we are not associated with Platypus LLC.

Everything you find here is without absolutly no waranty and I’m not responsible for any inconveniences or issues that might occurs.

Feedback

Don’t hesitate to ask about some additional info or next guides and also if you find some mistakes, please let me know. This can be done by submitting an issue or a push request on github.