Using Control Board

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• General Procedure
  • Connecting to Control Board
  • System configuration (motor matrix, thruster inversions, thruster PWM, reldof parameters)
  • Sensor configuration
  • Validating sensor connectivity
  • Modes of operation & setting speed
  • Motor Watchdog
  • Reading Sensor data
  • Example program using python interface script
• LED Indicator Info
• Calibrate Sensors
• Custom interface code instead of python iface
  • Many users will want to build their own interface.
  • Python iface is a reference / an easy place to start, but not required
  • You just need to implement communication with the control board as described in comm protocol and messages pages
  • Note that users doing so may wish to read the section on SimCB and simulator too as supporting both TCP and UART in implementations can be useful.