Drivers to collect the Arduino Nicla Vision sensors
APACHE-2.0 License
Plug-and-play MicroPython drivers for Arduino Nicla Vision sensors.
This package contains the MicroPython drivers enabling the Arduino Nicla Vision board to be ready-to-use in the ROS world! 💥
The developed MicroPython script allows for streaming of sensors data from the Arduino Nicla Vision board to a ROS-running machine via TCP or UDP sockets. This package provide the optimised drivers that will be running on the Nicla Vision board, allowing to:
Here a list of the available sensors onboard the Arduino Nicla Vision board:
suggested The Arduino version is the one suggested, working, and the one that will be maintained.
Step-by-step instructions on how to get the drivers running onboard the Arduino Nicla Vision:
config.h
file for network and sensors configuration.main.ino
file in Arduino IDE and upload it on the Nicla.Follow the below two steps for enjoying your Arduino Nicla Vision board! 🚀
ENABLE_ARDUINO_IDE_SERIAL_MONITOR
in the config file must be set to false when the board is not tethered to a Arduino IDE running pc.Note: Look at the LED of your board! The first seconds after having turned it on, the LED should be Green or Blue.
☀️ Now you are ready to go! Check out the Nicla Vision ROS2 repository or the Nicla Vision ROS repository for unlocking the Nicla Vision board in the ROS ecosystem! ☀️
unmaintained We had problems with the micropython library for the microphone, but the rest of the sensors should be good. Anyway, we are not maintaining the micropython version anymore, having switched to the Arduino version definetevely.
Step-by-step instructions on how to get the drivers running onboard the Arduino Nicla Vision:
scripts/main.py
and scripts/config.json
files of this repositorymain.py
and config.json
files ìnside the memory of the Nicla Vision board.Follow the below two steps for enjoying your Arduino Nicla Vision board! 🚀
Turn on a Hotspot connection on your pc.
Note: if you are on Ubuntu, click on Settings->WiFi->top three dots->"Turn on WiFi Hotspot...". If "Turn on WiFi Hotspot..." is grayed out, click first on the Network tab and then follow again the procedure starting from the WiFi tab. If the Hotspot is already configured, run this command in a terminal: $ nmcli connection up Hotspot
$ ifconfig
on your pc, and copy the "inet" address under the "enp" voice (following point)
Set the parameters in the config.json
file:
ssid
: the name of the activated Hotspotpassword
: the password of the activated Hotspotip
: IP address copied at point 2.connection_type
: "tcp" or "udp" (the user can choose if the board should transmit the sensors data by UDP or TCP socket connection)verbose
: true or false (for visualizing some debug prints in OpenMV IDE)Run the main.py
:
Note: Look at the LED of your board! The first seconds (about 15 sec) after having turned it on, the LED should be Blue.
☀️ Now you are ready to go! Check out the Nicla Vision ROS2 repository or the Nicla Vision ROS repository for unlocking the Nicla Vision board in the ROS ecosystem! ☀️
Here some useful links:
Distributed under the Apache-2.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.
🙌 If you use this work or take inspiration from it, please cite (to be published):
@inproceedings {DelBianco2024,
author = {Del Bianco, Edoardo and Torielli, Davide and Rollo, Federico and Gasperini, Damiano and Laurenzi, Arturo and Baccelliere, Lorenzo and Muratore, Luca and Roveri, Marco and Tsagarakis, Nikos G.},
booktitle={2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)},
title = {A High-Force Gripper with Embedded Multimodal Sensing for Powerful and Perception Driven Grasping},
year={2024},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
doi={}
}