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[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:...

[ROS Projects] – Build the Sentinel Robots from Matrix for Gazebo Simulator #Part2

by Miguel Angel | Feb 12, 2018 | Gazebo Tutorials, Robotics with ROS

Second part where we talk about how the xacro works in depth. Check out the first part if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pipPGL7KE&t=31s https://youtu.be/TR3doymrY2w

RDP 004: Using Docker to Cross-Compile ROS With Francisco Martin

by Ricardo Tellez | Feb 12, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, I interview Francisco Martin, associated professor at the University Juan Carlos I in Madrid, where he teaches robotics by using ROS. He is also a participant of the Robocup and the ROCKin competitions. He will explain how have they hacked Pepper the...

[RDS] 003 – ROS Development Studio Howto #3 move a robot with a python script

by Ruben Alves | Feb 9, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this video, the third of a series, we are going to show how to move a robot with a python script by using the ROS Development Studio environment (http://rds.theconstructsim.com) This video shows: 1- How to create a new ROS project and how to open it for...

Using OpenAI with ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Feb 9, 2018 | Robotics with ROS

OpenAI has released the Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. That toolkit is a huge opportunity for speeding up the progress in the creation of better reinforcement algorithms, since it provides an easy way of...