OutdoorNav Version 0.12 provides key features and updates to enhance the autonomy software experience including improved localization in GPS-denied environments with support for the cost-effective FixPosition XVN sensor, faster and more flexible mission planning with... read more
Chile’s open pit mines are challenging environments with harsh atmospheric conditions – danger lurks in every corner! That’s why Dr. Martin Adams’ research team at University of Chile is driven to minimize manpower in the mines. To do this, however, it means... read more
Clearpath is proud to partner with our friends at Universal Robotics to integrate UR5 and UR10 with the Husky and Grizzly, respectively, to make the ultimate mobile robot configurations! This is the first of many mobile robot configurations to be released, so stay... read more
The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow their embedded hardware to communicate with a computer. One of the most powerful aspects... read more
Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware devices attached to your Linux (Ubuntu) PC will belong to the root user. This means that... read more
It was a record-breaking fall for Clearpath Robotics; we’ve never had as many coop students as we did this term – we welcomed 11 students from colleges and universities across Canada and this ready-to-go group did not disappoint! Whether it was detailing... read more
We have a lot of robot gurus here at Clearpath; I’m talkin’ hardcore experts. There are a few of us, however, who are a little rusty on our robot-building skills. As in, we don’t have any… You know who I’m talking about – the people in finance, supply chain, and... read more
We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT! What good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll write a subscriber that reads Husky’s position from the odom topic, and graph... read more
NERVE Center, nerve-racking? Not for our bots! We put them to the test across all of the courses at NERVE Center and, we’re proud to say, they passed with flying colors. What’s the NERVE Center you ask? It’s the robot testing facility at the University of... read more
