Fetch & Freight Manual

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• Introduction
  • Before you Start
• Safety
  • Safety Overview
  • Design Features
  • General Usage Guidelines
  • Warning Labels
• Getting Started
  • What’s In Box
  • Running Fetch and Freight
• Robot Hardware Overview
  • Mechanism Terminology
  • Mechanical Overview
  • Electrical Overview
  • Motion Control
  • Sensor Overview
• Computer Overview and Configuration
  • Default User Account
  • Creating User Accounts
  • Networking
  • Clock Synchronization
  • Upstart Services
  • Log Files
  • Speakers and Audio
• Care And Feeding
  • Charging
  • Batteries
  • Updating Your Robot
  • Re-Setting up apt Sources
  • Cleaning Your Robot
  • Troubleshooting
• ROS Noetic + Ubuntu 20.04
  • Known issues
  • Upgrading Your Robot to ROS Noetic + Ubuntu 20.04
  • Post-install Validation
  • Compatibility of Other Computers Used with the Robot
  • Not Supported: Upgrading from 14.04 to 20.04 (via 16.04)
  • Appendices

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Visualization
  • Visualizing with RVIZ
  • Using the Runtime Monitor
• Tutorial: Gazebo Simulation
  • Installation
  • Starting the Simulator
  • Simulating a Freight
  • Visualizing with RVIZ
  • Running the Mobile Manipulation Demo
  • Launch it on ROSDS
  • Simulation vs. Real Robots
• Tutorial: Robot Teleop
  • Using the Robot Joystick
  • Moving the Base with your Keyboard
  • Software Runstop
  • Re-pairing Robot Joystick that Won’t Connect
  • Using Deadzone Parameter to Correct Drift
• Tutorial: Navigation
  • Running Navigation in Gazebo Simulation
  • Running Navigation on a Real Robot
  • Building A Map
  • Sending Waypoints
• Tutorial: Manipulation
  • Getting Started Demo
  • Running the Pick and Place Demo
  • Running MoveIt on a Robot
  • Simple MoveIt Disco Example
  • Simple MoveIt Wave Example
  • More information and Tutorials on MoveIt
• Tutorial: Perception
  • Head Camera Topics
  • Running the Pick and Place Demo
• Tutorial: Auto Docking
  • Running the Docking Node
  • Manually Running the Auto Docking Nodes
  • Auto Docking Programmatically
• Tutorial: Calibrating Fetch
  • Understanding Calibration
  • Calibrate Robot Tool
  • Running Calibration
  • Calibrating Fetch Torso
• Tutorial: Fetch Programming by Demonstration
  • System Requirements
  • Installing from Source
  • Running
  • Using the GUI
  • Code Interface
  • System Overview

Other

• API Overview
  • Arm and Torso
  • Base Interface
  • Head Interface
  • Gripper Interface
  • Head Camera Interface
  • Laser Interface
  • IMU Interface
  • Resetting Breakers
• Release Notes
  • August 25, 2021
  • September 10, 2019
  • August 9, 2019
  • April 4, 2019
  • December 18, 2017
  • November 29, 2016
  • May 28, 2016
  • January 21, 2016
  • November 23, 2015
  • November 12, 2015
  • August 5, 2015
  • July 9, 2015
  • June 8, 2015
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • How can I cite Fetch or Freight in an Academic Paper?
  • How do I create a good support ticket?
  • Why won’t my robot do anything at all (charge, move, etc…)?
  • Why won’t my robot turn on when I push the power button?
  • Why won’t my robot move when I use my PS3/PS4 joystick?
  • The robot will not move and/or slows down near obstacles, why?
  • I just sent a trajectory command to the arm and now it won’t gravity compensate, help?
• Issues and Support
  • When you encounter an issue
  • Reporting software bugs
  • Contacting Fetch Support

Legal

• Notices
  • FCC Notice
  • Copyright Notices for Open Source Software
  • Trademarks
• License

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page