Ricbot: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:34, 13 December 2025

Ricbot is intended for fast deployment to areas of interest.

Main features:

Reused motors and wheels from an old "Elector Wheelie" platform
Designed to fit into a normal car for deployment, i.e can be disassembled to no more than 55cm in height.
No more than 25-30 kg, requiring 1 or 2 persons to load or unload.
Wheel-odometry recording (and timestamped)
Camera image recording (and timestamped), the intention is Realsense D435.
Maybe GNSS recording too.
Manual remote control.

Tentative layout:

Length is 1m, free height 25cm, width 65cm.

Install

sudo apt-get install automake libtool libusb-1.0-0-dev libx11-dev xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt install libssl-dev

cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense.git
cd librealsense
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j3
sudo make install

Copy udev rules to udev

cd ~/git/librealsense/config/99-realsense*.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
udevadm control --reload-rules

All example commands start with rs-, e.g.:

rs-capture
rs-pointcloud

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 === Intel RealSense ===