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Starting up the PR2

Description: This tutorial guides you step by step through starting the PR2 robot

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: Running the PR2 dashboard

Quickstart

Log in

Assuming that you already have a user account and the robot is powered on (Red Breaker is on)

ssh username@prx

Claim the robot

Once logged in, you will see whether or not someone is using the robot:

If it is in use, you will see something like:

Active User: vpradeep
Message: Testing my super cool robot app
Acquired: Wed Apr 28 11:39:15 2010

If it is available, you will see:

The robot is not claimed by anyone.

Launch the robot

To claim the robot:

robot claim --message="Hello World! I'm testing my super cool PR2 app"

Once claimed, you can start the robot:

robot start

This will bring up the robot's software. However, you won't see any of the motors do anything, since the circuit breakers & motors haven't been enabled yet.

Enable Motors

To enable the breakers motors, you can either use the dashboard or you can simply transition the run-stop from Stop to Go after the robot software has been started.

You will now see the various joints move while going through the initial calibration procedure. After all the joints have finished calibrating, the robot will go into a position hold mode, thus signaling that it has completed coming up.

Note that any problems during this procedure will be visible in the dashboard.

Stop the Robot

Once you're done using the robot, you should stop it to allow others to use it.

robot stop

Follow the on-screen commands to kill all of you processes.

Other Tools

PR2 Systemcheck

To run a self-test of all PR2 systems, run:

sudo pr2-systemcheck

You should run robot stop before you run systemcheck.

Turning Off PR2

To turn off the PR2, run:

sudo pr2-shutdown

After the red lights on the PR2 servers go off, turn off the main breaker to power off the robot.

Reboot:

sudo pr2-shutdown --reboot

PR2 Manual

For a more detailed explanation of how to bring up the robot, please refer to PR2 Manual. It will take you step by step through starting the PR2 robot.