The NAO Backpack package

This package accompanies the paper "The NAO Backpack: An Open-hardware Add-on for Fast Software Development with the NAO Robot" accepted in the RoboCup Symposium 2017. Feel free to contribute and collaborate via issues or pull requests :)

This package includes:

• A CAD model and instructions to build your own NAO backpack.
• An URDF model with the backpack. (pending)
• Some B-Human framework's modules to publish internal representations via UDP as well as configuration files.
• A ROS node (bhuman2ros) to publish the UDP messages from the NAO to ROS topics.
• Installation and configuration scripts to facilitate backpack's software installation and connection to the NAO.

Instructions

• For an overview of this project, please refer the preprint.
• Installation of the backpack software.
• Installation of the NAO software.
• How to configurate and run everything.

To cite this work

Matías Mattamala, Gonzalo Olave, Clayder González, Nicolás Hasbún, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar. The NAO Backpack: An Open-hardware Add-on for Fast Software Development with the NAO Robot. RoboCup Symposium 2017, Nagoya, Japan, 2017.

Bibtex

@article{mattamalaRoboCup2017,
  title={ {The NAO Backpack: An Open-hardware Add-on for Fast Software Development with the NAO Robot}},
  author={Mattamala, Mat\'ias, Olave, Gonzalo, Gonz\'alez, Clayder, Hasb\'un, Nicol\'as, and Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier},
  year = {2017},
}

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This package is built upon other libraries and frameworks:

• The CAD model is partially based on Softbank's Solidwork files.
• The B-Human modules provided here were developed to be compatible with the B-Human Framework, as well as the representations and communication libraries used in the bhuman2ros node. The framework includes its own license; details can be found here.
• The URDF model is based on Armin Hornung's, licensed under the BSD.
• The set_ros_master.sh script is based on Duckietown's.
• The hotspot.sh script is based on Duckietown Chile's.