by James Witczak | Mar 3, 2015 | Robot Forge |
ROS Indigo for Husky has arrived! Yes you read it correctly – Indigo is ready for our flagship Husky platform, and for those curious, it’s already built into Jackal. Moving forward, all new Huskies purchased from Clearpath will be shipped out with Indigo. In the...
by Martin Cote | Jan 19, 2015 | Teaching and Learning |
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...
by Dylan Drover | May 21, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
Local path planning is an integral part of robotics and there are numerous methods for achieving this. One such method is the Vector Field Histogram (VFH). The main idea behind this method of navigation is that through the robot’s sensors, it is able to detect...
by Ryan Gariepy | Feb 20, 2014 | Robot Forge |
Ever since we loaned Thalmic Labs our first Grizzly prototype to make some early demos for their launch video, we’ve been eagerly following their progress. There’s obviously a lot of interesting applications for using the Myo for robot control, and our...
by Ilia Baranov | Feb 4, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
Clearpath Robotics recently tested the capabilities of the ROS for MATLAB toolkit (available here: robot-operating-system.html). This is very interesting for the research and education fields, as it will allow users to take their existing MATLAB code and use it on a...
