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[RDS] 002 – ROS Development Studio #Howto build, debug, test and train ROS programs

by Ruben Alves | Feb 2, 2018 | ROS Q&A

https://youtu.be/BP0hLc3z5EQ In this video, the second of a series, we are going to show how to build, debug, test and train ROS programs by using the ROS Development Studio environment (http://rds.theconstructsim.com) This video shows: 1- How to create a new ROS...

[ROS Projects] – Performing LSD-SLAM with a ROS based Parrot AR. Drone

by Alberto Ezquerro | Jan 31, 2018 | Robotics with ROS

Drones market is growing more and more each year, and so does the need of improving the way we control them. One of the most important topics here is, of course, how to navigate drones. In this series of videos we are going to have a look at how to...

[ROS Projects] – Exploring ROS using a 2 Wheeled Robot

by Marco Arruda | Jan 30, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

This project is about using a Two Wheeled Mobile Robot to explore features and tools provided by ROS (Robot Operating System). We start building the robot from the scratch, using URDF (Unified Robot Description Format) and RViz to visualize it. Further, we...

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...