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[ROS Projects] – Build the Sentinel Robots from Matrix for Gazebo Simulator #Part3

by Miguel Angel | Feb 19, 2018 | Gazebo Tutorials, Robotics with ROS

The third video on the series where you learn how to build the sentinel of TheMatrix film, which is an octopus like robot. Learn how to build it in Gazebo and use ROS to move it around. Next set of videos will be about adding the meshes. Remember to post your...

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)....