Setup Motor Control

[garethellis0]

• Once we've decided on how we want to move, we need to translate these commands into motor controls
• On the computer side we will receive a twist message which is the movement command
• We will need to convert this twist message to a serial message and pass it to the arduino

Possible Seperate Issue

• The arduino will need to receive the serial command, and convert it electrical signals to send to the motors. This will depend on how the robot is wired.

[garethellis0]

Update

• We need to try and repurpose our firmware from here to try and control the motor and speed controller for the smaller RC car

[Dulluhan]

RC cars just need 2 sets of pwm out. One for servo for steering, one for throttle. Pretty straight forward. The scaling can be 1-1 in this case converting from twist to servo out. No need to slow or speed wheel differential throttle.

[garethellis0]

Hmmm, we seem to be doing some mapping in the differential drive firmware we have for JFrost here. We can probably just toss this as well then? Just do the mapping on the driver side?