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RDP 005: Learning about the Open Stack Of Tasks for Humanoids With Enrico Mingo Hoffman

by Ricardo Tellez | Feb 19, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, I interview Enrico Mingo Hoffman, postdoc researcher at the Humanoids & Human Centered Mechatronics Lab of the Italian Institute of Technology. He will talk about their open implementation of the Stack of Tasks...

[ROS Projects] – Performing LSD-SLAM with a ROS based Drone – #Part 3

by Alberto Ezquerro | Feb 16, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this 3rd video of the series, we are successfully achieve to launch the LSD-SLAM ROS node in an Hector Quadrotor simulation. https://youtu.be/BLr4VSUeIYY

[ROS Q&A] 104 – How to add a rotating join to Kinect in Turtlebot

by Ricardo Tellez | Feb 15, 2018 | ROS Q&A

We solve today a question from ROS answers that asks about how to add a rotating joint to the Turtlebot Kinect sensor: https://answers.ros.org/question/280715/include-a-rotation-axis-to-turtlebot/ Q: How to Include a rotation Axis to Turtlebot Kinect? A: Basically,...

[RDS] 004 – ROS Development Studio #Howto use git in RDS

by Ruben Alves | Feb 14, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this video we show how to use git in RDS. We do that by showing how to use git to clone a Gazebo Simulation of the Parrot Ardrone on the ~/simulation_ws (Simulation Workspace) and also we use git to clone a training package to the ~/catkin_ws (Catkin Workspace)....

[ROS Projects] Exploring ROS with a 2 Wheeled Robot #Part 3 – URDF Laser Scan Sensor

by Marco Arruda | Feb 13, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

In this video, we are going to insert a laser scan sensor to a 2 wheeled robot the robot. https://youtu.be/oIz1ay8hCZs References RDS: https://rds.theconstructsim.com/ Source Code Repository: https://bitbucket.org/theconstructcore/two-wheeled-robot Gazebo plugins:...