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Stack Summary

Maxwell is a custom mobile manipulator. The Maxwell stack contains configuration, launch, and demo applications for the Maxwell robot.

• Author: Maintained by Michael Ferguson
• License: BSD,
• Repository: vanadium-ros-pkg
• Source: svn http://vanadium-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/maxwell

Introduction

Maxwell is an inexpensive mobile manipulator, capable of operating in human-scale environments. The robot has a 5-degree of freedom arm, pan and tilt head with depth sensor, and differential drive mobile base. The robot is fully integrated with the open-source ROS framework, easing software development and allowing interoperability with a large amount of existing software.

Documentation

The development of Maxwell has been covered on my blog (http://www.showusyoursensors.com). For additional information, please see the 2011 RoboGames Symposium paper (link soon).

Code

Maxwell's code is currently hosted in the fergy-ros-pkg repository (http://code.google.com/p/fergy-ros-pkg/). The googlecode wiki has some very brief documentation.