Version 1.0. - Tue 27 Dec 2012

by Autonomous Ground Vehicle Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (AGV KGP) http://www.agvkgp.com

Design of the Eklavya series had started in the month of June of 2011. With an aim to send this vehicle to IGVC, several designs were weighed against each other. The team ultimately went with a sturdy skid steer mechanism implemented on Eklavya 1.0 for the IGVC 2012.

After the competition, the team decided to improvise the 1.0 platform with some changes in its mechanical design leading to Eklavya 1.1, which is almost half as heavy as its predecessor and still be able to carry the 10 Kg payload. Most of the software improvements are developed and tested on this platform.

https://github.com/jitrc/eklavya-ros-pkg/wiki

Main requirements are:

• ROS (Fuerte) http://www.ros.org

• OpenCV (included in ROS) http://opencv.org

• MRPT http://www.mrpt.org

  $ sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-joystick-drivers

  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joseluisblancoc/mrpt

  $ sudo apt-get update

  $ sudo apt-get install libmrpt-dev mrpt-apps

at https://github.com/jitrc/eklavya-ros-pkg/wiki/Installing-ROS-in-Ubuntu-12.04-(Precise)

more at http://www.jitrc.com/downloads/ppt_reports/ROS_tut_jit.pdf

== mrpt in ros ==

• http://www.mrpt.org/mrpt-ros-pkg
• http://code.google.com/p/mrpt-ros-pkg/