VG-450 User Manual Introduction Overview VG-450 is a fast, agile, compact robotic open-source research platform specially designed for UGV developers and scientific researchers, providing abundant demo routines, such as outdoor waypoint planning, 2D LiDAR mapping and obstacle avoidance, 3D mapping, etc. This development platform is based on ROS open-source system and APM auto navigation system and also equipped with multiple sensors, such as LiDAR, binocular camera, depth camera, RTK, which is suitable for applied research on autonomous...
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VG-450 User Manual Safety equipment Servo brake/anti-collision tube No-load highest speed 10.8km/h Minimum turning radius 0m (In-situ rotation) Maximum climbing capacity 30° Minimum ground clearance 107mm Max travel 10km Control mode remote control/command mode Remote controller 2.4Ghz/1km extreme distance Communication interface Onboard Computer Model Intel i7 8565U, quad-core and eight-thread...
VG-450 User Manual Data format NMEA-0183、BINEX、Femtomes ASCII、Binary GNSS data rate 1Hz / 5Hz / 10Hz / 20Hz(optional) WIFI Transmission System Weight 146.8g Size 88x66x19mm Transmission distance 800m(without obstacles) Frequency 5.1GHz~5.9GHz Power Delay 200ms Bandwidth 40MHz or 20MHz Transmitting power 20mW Work temperature -10℃~45℃...
VG-450 User Manual 2. Turn on the remote controller and turn the SWB shift lever to the middle position to switch the UGV to the remote control mode, so that the UGV can move to the test site (*Because the point when the navigation control panel is activated is considered to be the home point, it is recommended to restart the UGV after arriving at the test site) 3.
VG-450 User Manual 2. Turn on the remote controller 3. Connect to the WiFi of the UGV, and start NoMachine to connect to the UGV's onboard computer 4. Find the sh script folder of the UGV's onboard computer desktop in the NoMachine interface 5.
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VG-450 User Manual Check the terminal window that pops up and whether the nodes in each terminal are started normally. After confirming that the nodes are running normally, press the A or D key in the third keyboard-controlled terminal to give the UGV an angular velocity (Angular velocity is recommended to control within 0.5).
VG-450 User Manual RtabMap 3D Mapping Function The started sh script is /src/R300/r300_simulation/sh/r300_simulation_rtabmap.sh. The sh file contains the following parts: 1. Start the ros master node 2. Start R300 simulation, including simulation environment, UGV model, sensor simulation, TF, etc. 3. Keyboard control node to control the movement of UGV 4.
VG-450 User Manual simulation, TF, etc. 3. Keyboard control node to control the movement of UGV 4. Octomap mapping function, mainly using 3D lidar point cloud data for mapping 5. The rviz visual interface, which is set for the octomap function, displays maps and UGV models.
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VG-450 User Manual 1. Start the ros master node 2. Start R300 simulation, including simulation environment, UGV model, sensor simulation, TF, etc. 3. Keyboard control node to control the movement of UGV 4. 2D mapping function, mainly using 2D lidar data for mapping 5.
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