WERDNA

Wheeled Bipedal Trained by RL for Locomotion and Posture Control. These are the ROS2 implementations to be run on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu Mate and ROS2 Humble. For the custom gym environments can be found here.

The RPI4 is also intended to be connected to a Teensy 4.1 via UART which will be commanding the Odrives to actuate accordingly.

Note

It is a Final Year Thesis Project and it is still not finalized.

Hasn't been tested on real hardware.

CAD will be published shortly.

Dependencies

1. ROS2 Control
2. ROS2 Controllers
3. Stable Baselines3
4. Gymnasium

Package Contents:

Main Package Contents

Packages	Functionality
werdna_bringup	Bringup Commands
werdna_description	Description of URDF Models
werdna_msgs	custom messages for werdna teleoperation
werdna_odometry	Publish Odometry from wheels joint information
werdna_hardware_interface	custom Hardware Interface from RPI->Teensy
werdna_teleop	Teleoperation Commands for Joystick
werdna_agent	Node to run trained agent inference

Raspberry Pi Required Contents

Packages	Functionality
MPU6050 Driver	Driver Node to interface MPU6050 with RPI4
Robot Localization	Fusing IMU and Odometry Data

Code Run

Launch in Base

cd <your_ws>
source install/setup.zsh #or setup.bash (I use zsh anyways)
ros2 launch bringup launch_base.py

It should should launch the description, relevant controllers and hardware interface, teleoperation (joystick), wheel odometry, robot_localizaton package, and finally the trained agent at once

TODO

• Write Hardware Interface
• Write bringup package
• Write Description package
• Write Odometry node
• Write Teleop node
• Write agent node
• Write msgs
• Establish Sensor Fusion (Phase 2), install sensor fusion and write params file
• Finish URDF description