REEM

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ROS Software Maintainer: PAL Robotics

REEM, the humanoid service robot created by PAL Robotics, can be used for several purposes. Thanks to its autonomous navigation system, its user-friendly touchscreen, and its voice and face recognition system, REEM can find its way in various surroundings and help or entertain people in most public environments.

Besides helping you as a guide or amusing you as an entertainer, REEM can also transport small packages, and its dynamic information point can be used with a wide variety of multimedia applications: display an interactive map of the surrounding area, call up a variety of information (weather, nearby restaurants, airlines travel time, etc...), offer tele-assistance via video-conferencing.

More information can be found in the PAL Robotics website.

Contents

REEM

Installation

Instructions on how to install can be found in the how to launch REEM in gazebo tutorial for ROS Hydro.

Please refer to the pal-ros-pkg page for source installation instructions for other supported ROS distributions.

Launching a Gazebo simulation

Please read the tutorials to use REEM in a Gazebo simulation.

Library Overview

1. Basic Configuration

Component	ROS package/stack
Robot-specific Messages	reem_msgs
Robot model (URDF)	reem_description

2. Hardware Drivers and Simulation

Component	ROS package/stack
Controllers	reem_controllers
Gazebo Simulation	reem_gazebo, reem_plugins

3. High-Level Capabilities

Component	ROS package/stack
Kinematics	reem_kinematics
Arm motion planning	reem_arm_navigation
Perception	perception_blort, pal_image_processing

4. Customizing

Since the Fuerte release, setting the USE_RGBD_SENSOR environment variable to true will enable the optional head-mounted ASUS Xtion Pro Live or Primesense Carmine 1.09.

Related Repositories

PAL Robotics GitHub organization