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RDP 002: Programming Field Service Robots With Ryan Gariepy

by Ricardo Tellez | Jan 29, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Ryan Gariepy CTO of Clearpath Robotics talks about how they use ROS for field service robots. He will explain how he uses vim for coding with ROS their field service robots. He will also express his point of view about the current status of ROS based...

[ROS Q&A] 103 – How can I represent a snake robot with many identical segmens in SDF #Part3

by Miguel Angel | Jan 29, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this final part you will learn how to use the XACRO system with shel scripts to fully automate the generation of a robot snake: Q: How can I represent a snake robot with many identical segmens in SDF ? A: We used shell scripts, python file completion and...

[ROS Q&A] 102 – Create a MoveIt! package for Fetch robot

by Alberto Ezquerro | Jan 26, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In the following video, we will show you how to create a MoveIt! package for controlling a Fetch robot. https://youtu.be/rfcXZcKZd8A

What is moveit_ros? All about Movelt! ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Jan 25, 2018 | ROS Q&A

What is moveit_ros? ROS MoveIt!: All You Need to Know To Start I remember when we participated at the Robocup At Home competition in 2013 with the Pal Robotics team (actually that project was the germen of current The Construct company). At that competition, we used a...

[ROS Q&A] 101 – TF Tutorial – Problem to display second turtle

by Marco Arruda | Jan 25, 2018 | ROS Q&A

Q: tf tutorial is displaying just one turtle instead of two A: My guess is that you forgot to add the listener node tag to the launch file. Forum question: https://answers.ros.org/question/280412/tf-tutorial-is-displaying-just-one-turtle-instead-of-two/ RDS:...