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ROBOTICS@UMD: CONSTRUCTING QUBO Science, Discovery, and the Universe Geography(GIS) Major May 5, 2016 Chidi Obineche Email: [email protected] Contributions • I was in charge of researching launchscript in the club’s software division and how it can be integrated into Qubo’s controls, but I had some trouble finding what commands needed to be used to install it. • Launchscript works by first installing roslaunch onto the Ubuntu Virtualbox and type roslaunch with the file you want to use. It can only be used with launch files though. • There has to be a launch directory in one of the packages and the files have to be renamed to have “.launch” at the end for it to work. Intro and Purpose • The research was carried out in the University of Maryland’s Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility • I chose this project because I was interested in how creating a Robosub was similar to how astronauts work in space. • The research project is to finish building a robot named Qubo for AUVSI and ONR’s Robosub competition in San Diego. Tortuga 4(below) is one of the robosubs that the club used before in past competitions. Progress/Future Plans • Qubo is currently in design review and the club is already registered for the Robosub competition. It will still take a while before the robot is finished, but once it is fully operational, we will probably test the robot by using our water tank in the facility (see the picture below) to see if it will do well in the Robosub competition in the summer. • I might want to do a research/internship Capstone again, but it has to be one I can put more focus on regardless of how busy my schedule is. Acknowledgements: Robotics@UMD club(mainly the Software division), Sean Gillen, Dave Akin, The SDU Scholars program, Alan Peel and Natalie Gaudette Info on roslaunch: http ://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch Photo Credits: Robotics@UMD(Left Picture), Chidi Obineche(Right Picture)
