Manual

MiniSLAM
SuperDroid Robots, Inc Contact
224 Technology Park Lane [phone]
Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 [e-mail]
www.SuperDroidRobots.com
Revised: August 3, 2018 Page 4 of 13
Launching
Follow these steps to begin operation:
1. Power on the robot and connect to the on-board router (SSID: MiniSLAM). Once the LIDAR starts
spinning, the robot boot process has finished. This usually takes around 30 seconds.
2. Launch the ROS joystick driver and RViz using launch_ui.sh located in the MiniSLAM_UI directory. If the
network interface used to connect to the robot is anything other than wlan0, it will need to be passed as
an argument:
NOTE: The source command always needs to be used so ROS environment variables are set properly.
3. Confirm that RViz is able to find the mini_slam.rviz configuration file located in the MiniSLAM_UI
directory. If the display options shown below are available, everything has launched correctly:
If the above display options aren’t visible, load the configuration file manually:
File->Open Config->/path/to/MIniSLAM_UI/mini_slam.rviz
Control
The MiniSLAM robot can either be operated manually or through autonomous waypoint navigation. The provided
USB gamepad is used to provide manual control and for switching operation modes:
source /path/to/MiniSLAM_UI/launch_ui.sh <enter network interface here>