Cobot/General information

CoBot
Cobot is a mobile robot of roughly human stature. Some features of the robot include an independently-rotating camera for human vision, Microsoft Kinect for visual data used in navigation, Stargazer module for trouble spots in the robot's autonomous navigation, and a forward-looking LIDAR module for obstacle avoidance.

Startup and shutdown procedures
Startup ​Shutdown
 * 1) Check the charger to make sure that CoBot has a battery voltage of at least 32V
 * 2) Unplug CoBot from the charger
 * 3) Unplug the laptop's external adapter
 * 4) Turn on CoBot's power by toggling the switch at the rear of the base
 * 5) SSH into CoBot's control laptop: ssh cobot2.wv.cc.cmu.edu
 * 6) log in
 * 7) ./bin/auto_start
 * 1) Toggle the power switch at the rear of CoBot's base
 * 2) Plug in CoBot's charger
 * 3) Plug the laptop back into its external adapter