wbr914

White Box Robotics Model 914 robot. More...

White Box Robotics Model 914 robot.

The White Box Robotics Model 914 computer communicates with the M3 I/O and motor control board over a serial-to-USB driver. The serial commands are used to communicate with two PMD motion control chips that drive the stepper motors and control the onboard I/O.

Compile-time dependencies

• none

Provides

The wbr914 driver provides the following device interfaces, some of them named:

• position2d
  • This interface returns position data, and accepts velocity commands.
    • PLAYER_POSITION2D_CMD_VEL
• ir
  • This interface returns the IR range data.
• aio
  • This interface returns the analog input data from the optional 2nd I/O board.
• dio
  • This interface returns the digital input information and allows control of the digital outputs on all installed White Box Robotics I/O boards. The first I/O board supplies 8 digital inputs and outputs and the optional second I/O board supplies an additional 8 digital inputs and outputs.

Supported configuration requests

• position2d :
  • PLAYER_POSITION2D_REQ_SET_ODOM
  • PLAYER_POSITION2D_REQ_MOTOR_POWER
  • PLAYER_POSITION2D_REQ_RESET_ODOM
  • PLAYER_POSITION2D_REQ_GET_GEOM
• ir :
  • PLAYER_IR_REQ_POSE

Supported commands

• position2d :
  • PLAYER_POSITION2D_CMD_VEL
• dio :
  • PLAYER_DIO_CMD_VALUES

Configuration file options

• port (string)
  • Default: "/dev/ttyUSB0"

Example

driver
(
  name "wbr914"
  provides [ "position2d:0" "ir:0" "aio:0" "dio:0" ]
  port "/dev/ttyUSB0"
)

Author

Ian Gough, White Box Robotics