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Elektron is a differential driven robot platform, that was developed by Robot Programming and Pattern Recognition Group (www).
The robot software is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). Detiled software description is presented in software section.
This repository consists of several packages that enclose Elektron robot functionality and enables the robot simulation. Depending on the compilation and installation configuration (compile&install), there are two launch modes. First is desired for the physical Elektron robot hardware only (link) and the second for an external machine as a simulation (link).
It ia a add-on to the Elektron base. It consists of one Kinect sensor on its top and a head with two degrees of freedom in the middle. The head can be equipped with any vision sensor (Elektron simulation supports Kinect and RGB camera only!). The head is being driven by two servomotors in yaw and pitch orientation. The elektron_tower package consists of the head real effector. It sets desired absolute position of the head joints to the head controlling device.
Additionally the tower is equipped with two speakers at the bottom and microphone on its top. These devices are controlled by textToSpeach and speachRecognition package.