Machinekit ROS controlling an industrial robot

Machinekit ROS controlling an industrial robot

5 minutes read
In a previous article, I explained how Machinekit and ROS could be combined to build fully autonomous robots. In this article, I focus on my project of retro-fitting an industrial robot arm with Machinekit and using it with ROS. The combination of ROS and Machinekit leverages the low-level real-time motion control capabilities of Machinekit and the high-level robotic tools that ...

Up Squared PREEMPT_RT

Compiling an RT Kernel for the Up Squared

3 minutes read
In this blog post, you will learn how to compile a PREEMPT_RT kernel for the Up Squared (Up2) board. DISCLAIMER: This article was posted end of 2018. Things have changed since then and I decided against using the Up Squared for my project because I couldn't get the RT latency to a reasonable level with this hardware. Please don't take ...