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[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...

How to build a robot using ROS? – From Idea to Robotics Product in 3 weeks

by The Construct | Mar 27, 2018 | Real Robots with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Want Your Robotics Idea Happen in 2018? This Is Your Webinar! What you will learn from this ROS Robots Webinar Series We will guide you step by step from idea to a real robotics product that you can start selling in three weeks from now We will show you which...

RDP 009: Learning about Gazebo Simulator with Louise Poubel

by Ricardo Tellez | Mar 26, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode I talk to one of the main developers of the Gazebo simulator: Louise Poubel. She tells us about the ins and outs of Gazebo, how do they organize at OSRF to develop the simulator, why to discard Gazebo 2 and how to install the newest versions. She will...