Revel Robotic Manipulator

ROS Software Maintainer: Max Svetlik - max@svenzva.com

ROS Software Stack: svenzva_ros

Tested platforms: Ubuntu 14.04 + Indigo, Ubuntu 16.04 + Kinetic

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Revel Robotic Manipulator

Overview

Revel is an affordable high performance robotic manipulator from Svenzva Robotics. Revel's features and pricepoint allows labs, schools and companies to add robot arm(s) to their curriculum or robot platform.

Revel is a mid-sized robot arm with a weight under 3kg, a full reach of 63cm and a payload of 1.2kg at full reach. Power requirements are modest and it is a fully ROS enabled system including MoveIt!, ros_control and Gazebo support. All robot features are exposed via ROS interfaces.

More information can be found at https://svenzva.com/revel.

Installation

Please see installation instructions on Revel's ROS software stack wiki page.

Support

Software support is given through our github issues page. For other inquiries visit our support center.

Library Overview

1. Basic Configuration

Component

ROS package/stack

||Robot Messages||svenzva_msgs || ||Robot Model and Description||svenzva_description ||

2. Hardware Drivers and Simulation

Component	ROS package/stack
Internal Motor Drivers	svenzva_drivers
External Controller (ros_control)	svenzva_drivers/src/ros_control
Simulator	svenzva_simulation

3. High-Level Capabilities

Component	ROS package/stack
MoveIt!	svenzva_moveit
Cartesian Joystick Teleop	svenzva_joy
Kinesthetic Teaching Interface	svenzva_utils