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[ROS Project] Learning MoveIt! with Sawyer robot – #Part 1

by Ricardo Tellez | Apr 14, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

In this series of videos we are going to learn how to use MoveIt! package with industrial robots. In this series we are going to use the Sawyer robot by Rethink Robotics. https://youtu.be/3wnX7teWIFQ [irp posts="8709" name="Learning MoveIt! with Sawyer robot - #Part...

RDP 011: Building Robotics Products With David Crawley

by Ricardo Tellez | Apr 11, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode I talk to David Crawley founder of Ubiquity Robotics. He will explain about the idea of using built robots for building more complex robotics products and applications. He will also explain about: What their robotics platform provides off-the-shelf, in...

[ROS Q&A] 112 – How to tune a PID with ROS Control

by Ricardo Tellez | Apr 4, 2018 | ROS Q&A

We show you a manual method to tune a PID for a robot that uses ROS Control to control its joints with a position controller. This method is very artisan but it is enough for most of the cases. We do not teach how ROS Control works in this video. We assume you...

RDP 010: Programming Pepper with ROS for the Robocup with Florian Lier

by Ricardo Tellez | Apr 3, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode I talk to Florian Lier about what his team ToBI is doing to program Pepper the robot for the Robocup@Home competition. We will explain the whole architecture they are using to program Pepper with ROS for the competition including: In which computer to...

[ROS Projects] – ROS with Raspberry Pi 3 using Gazebo Face Simulation #Part2

by Miguel Angel | Mar 29, 2018 | Gazebo Tutorials, Robotics with ROS

In this video we continue with what you learned in the previous one, we connect to RaspBerryPi through ssh and OpenVPN. We will record a ROSbag in ROS Developement Studio to avoid memory issues that RaspBerry Pi has when recording rosbags. We will then use...