Sensor Test Procedures - kristiana-rendon/Swarmathon-ROS GitHub Wiki

Test Procedures

Set rover to manual mode for the following procedures.

Sonar

  1. rostopic echo /swarmie0/sonarCenter

Accelerometer

  1. rostopic echo /swarmie0/imu

Magnetometer

  1. rostopic echo /swarmie0/imu
  2. rotate 360 degree and see if it stops where it stops

Gyro

  1. rostopic echo /swarmie0/imu

GPS

  1. rostopic echo /swarmie0/fix
  2. rostopic echo /swarmie0/navSat

Wheel Encoder

  1. rostopic echo -r 10 /swarmie0/sonarCenter geometry_msgs/Twist '{linear: {x: 0, y: 0, z: 0}, angular: {x: 0, y: 0, z:0}}'
  2. Measure the drift
  3. Open up magnitometer and measure drift