This week we finalized our first gripper, repaired our robot again and managed to get ROS to communicate with the motors. Our gripper consists of two slots that move towards each other, with this we can take 6 plants at once. Our procedure consists of shaping the plants with our gripper and then grabbing them from above with our gripper and placing them in a planter. Next week we will improve the gripper and automate it with servos. Since we had a cable fire in our robot, we have now improved our power supply and connected our Raspberry Pi to our main power supply. We have then continued testing so that our motors can now communicate with ROS again. Now our plan is to drive with these and Navstack.
(author: Christoph)