Category:Pengo

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Pengo Educational Robot

Pengo includes

  • 3D camera
  • 2D Lidar
  • Speakers
  • Lilt unit
  • Bumper sensor
  • Battery monitoring
  • Charging base unit
  • 2 Linux servers pre-configured with ROS
  • Screen with animation for HMI, ROS controlled

Pengo Internal documentation

  • Pengo (internal) documentation can be found here (Password protected)
  • Pengo
  • This effort is now deprecated. New systems are all open sourced.

Pengo User/Passord

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash" line='line'> User: pengo Password : pengo </syntaxhighlight>

Pengo remote login

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash" line='line'> ssh pengo@pengo_ip </syntaxhighlight>


Pengo network Configuration

 * Run the command
* nm-connection-editor
* This will open the graphical network manager as seen below. If you have more than one connection, select the one you want to apply the static IP to, then click Edit.
* This will open the Editing Wizard dialog. It is in this box that we need to enter the information.
* Go to 'IPv4 Settings' tab.
  • In the 'DNS Servers' input user 8.8.8.8 as your DNS provider.
  • In the 'Address section' choose the 'Add' option:
    * Insert your desired static IP.
* Use 255.255.255.0 as your Netmask address.
* Use your Gateway, can be found using *ifconfig command in the terminal.
  • Click save and run the commands:
    *sudo service resolvconf restart
    *sudo service networking restart



  • Configure the IP on Pengo:

Pengo IP configuration

ROS IP configuration

  • go to :
    * cd ~
    * pico pengo.config
  • Edit the parameters under 'User Settings' to have the same IP as from stage 3:
  * PENGO_IP= YOUR_STATIC_IP
  * PENGO_ROS_MASTER = YOUR_STATIC_IP


  • Reboot the computer and you're ready.

ROS launch configuration

Pengo ROS topics

Mapping and localization with Pengo

Use Andoid App as explained in the link.

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