# Drill head calibration > Сurrent calibration procedure require qualified engineer > and manual setting of the parameters and edition of drill onboard configuration files. > Please be patient and careful! > > New user-friendly calibration software module is under development. ## Goal ![](https://habrastorage.org/webt/jl/ab/-c/jlab-cwy2tkluozerzp7p8rhli8.png) The goal of this procedure is to find 1) The lower and upper dead-band values for drill head CW rotation 2) The lower dead-band value for drill head CCW rotation. > :warning: **Finding the maximum CCW rotation speed and upper dead-band value is unsafe and can cause drill rod or drill bit unscrewing, can harm the machine and people.** ## Pre-requirements Expected preconditions to perform cats_calibration: - the vehicle is on a flat surface of stable terrain without known voids and cracks; - the vehicle is leveled with jacks; - software is run as usual; - you and drill are free from any other tasks: no demonstrations, checks and so on; - operator must control than no obstacles exist and prevent collisions by switch to manual control. ## Step 1: Connect to Drill Terminal Connect to drill terminal via ssh: ```commandline ssh vist@10.23.9.7 ``` Enter password `12345678` if required. ## Reset calibration data In command line type: ```commandline rosparam set /CanNode/IOs/rot/min_value -1000 rosparam set /CanNode/IOs/rot/max_value 1000 rosparam set /CanNode/IOs/rot/deadband_value_pos 0 rosparam set /CanNode/IOs/rot/deadband_value_neg 0 ``` ## Start monitoring In command line type: ```commandline rostopic echo /remote_drill_actuator ``` ## Calibrating ### CW calibrating in air Switch to remote control and start very slowly increasing rotation until the drilling bit starts very slow rotation (check it by camera). Write down the minumal rotation_speed value in the console. Repeate experiment 3-5 times and check the smallest value. Then start increasing the rotatition speed untill reaches the maximum permited value (120..140 RPM), write down rotation_speed value ### CW calibrating in terrain Start drilling the hole manually or autonomos and after the first pull-up. Set the pull down pressure to normal drilling value for this type of terrain. Repeat the proccess described in previous paragraph. ### CCW calibration in air Do the same steps as in CW calibrating in air, excluding max RPM! ## Save the parameters In terminal go to the path with config files: ```commandline roscd drill_launch_pack/params/drill/ ``` ```commandline nano nodes.yaml ``` In parameter file section set the following values at section rot: ``` min_value: -CW_in_terrain_max_value max_value: CW_in_terrain_max_value deadband_value_pos: CW_in_air_min_value deadband_value_neg: CCW_in_air_min_value ``` ## Restart and check Save, restart, check. If rotation is still out of range - set the current default values and repeate the calibration ``` rot: can_channel: '/can_5/rx' value_field: 'rot' protocol: 'x90RotSupCtrl' min_value: -1000 max_value: 1000 deadband_value_pos: 0 deadband_value_neg: 0 deadband_threshold: 0.001 ```