Setup

  • It has two driveable wheels which are independently controllable, mounted along a common axis.
  • One or more low-friction caster wheels are used to keep the robot horizontal.

From a point robot to two wheels Instead of a point robot, the TurtleBot is now modeled as a robot with:

  • two wheels,
  • two motors, and
  • a motor controller.



also see: Wheel Encoder

Odometry

Wheel speed