Getting started

Revision as of 10:04, 17 November 2023

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The robot

The robot can connect to a PC using USB (or Wifi), but start with USB.

Battery maintenance

The battery is nominal 11.1V (3 LiPo cells) and the robot shuts down if below 10V.

NB! the charger cable to the battery (4-wire balance plug) is disconnected on some robots. See Regbot maintenance for more details.

NB2! Connecting the charger, or connecting USB cable while charging, sometimes disturb the processor on REGBOT. Especially if the PC is also connected to 230V.

Connect

The GUI looks like shown here in figure 1.

Figure 1. REGBOT GUI, then top-left frame controls the connection. Either communication over an USB com-port (recommended) or using WiFi (poor performance).

USB

Connect the USB cable and figure out which COM port is created for the robot (NB! Each robot ever connected to the PC has probably a reserved COM port number).

In Figure 1, the robot is connected using COM6:.

Status

Once connected to a robot time and name are shown (figure 1). Time should increase, to show that the connection is active.

The start button is a replication of the green button on the robot.

The "Load" field shows how much time the robot uses for every sample in microseconds (the sample time is 1ms). The load should be less than 1000us at all times.

When the configuration or mission changes, it can be saved to a small flash disk (4kB) on the robot with the "save to flash" button.

Menu

The menus have some extra features.

'File'->save saves some of the settings in the GUI and from the robot.

'View' can hide or show tab pages.

Help

Most fields has explanations, when the mouse hoovers over the field.

User interface

More details on user interface on User_interface

More details on missions on Mission