diffbot
DiffBot is an autonomous 2wd differential drive robot using ROS Noetic on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. With its SLAMTEC Lidar and the ROS Control hardware interface it's capable of navigating in an environment using the ROS Navigation stack and making use of SLAM algorithms to create maps of unknown environments. (by ros-mobile-robots)
abb_robot_driver
The new ROS driver for ABB robots (by ros-industrial)
| diffbot | abb_robot_driver | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 266 | 87 | |
| 4.9% | - | |
| 3.8 | 1.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
diffbot
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Question
I personally went through the hardest way possible and built my robots from scratch and it took 11 years and 3 degrees (BCs, MCs, PhD), but you don't need to go the same way. You can find some kit (for example https://github.com/ros-mobile-robots/diffbot) and start learning linux, bash, C++, Python, ROS, vehicle dynamics, computer vision, soldering and mechanical skills trying to keep this thing alive. It might sound too hard or even impossible, but solving the actual problems of your tiny robot and watching how it's making its first steps would motivate you to push forward. Also you will anyway learn a lot of skills that you will help you in the future.
abb_robot_driver
Posts with mentions or reviews of abb_robot_driver.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-29.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing diffbot and abb_robot_driver you can also consider the following projects:
my_ROS_mobile_robot - Differential drive mobile robot using ROS.
abb_librws - A C++ library for interfacing with ABB robot controllers supporting Robot Web Services
tensorflow_cpp - Helpful model wrappers around TensorFlow C++ API
fanuc - ROS-Industrial Fanuc support (http://wiki.ros.org/fanuc)
Heuristic_path_planners - Collection of classes and functions to allow 2D/3D path generation with heuristic algorithms such as A*, Theta* and LazyTheta* and ROS Interfaces
abb_egm_rws_managers - A C++ library for encapsulating ROS agnostic components for a ROS driver for ABB robots
abb_libegm - A C++ library for interfacing with ABB robot controllers supporting Externally Guided Motion (689-1)