E-Puck Mobile Robot

ROS Software Maintainer: VerLab

The e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof. Roland Siegwart at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). The e-puck is open hardware and its onboard software is open source, and is built[1] and sold[2] by several companies.

The full PDF can be found here.

Installation

Refer to the epuck_driver installation instructions.

Tutorials

To get started with the driver, refer to the tutorials on the epuck_driver page.

Simulation

Webots provide well calibrated simulation models of the e-puck and e-puck2 robots. They can be programmed in C (and cross-compiled on the e-puck) or from any other language, including C++, Python, Java, MATLAB or ROS, to simulate and remote-control a real e-puck robot.

Resources

• E-Puck Robot: Main web-page

• Sofware resources: related drivers for E-puck.