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Webinar | How to train your technical team on ROS skills?

by The Construct | Dec 13, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Learn the method of how to train the technical team or interns on ROS skills fast. Already used by many Universities and companies. ROS is becoming the essential skills for robotics engineers. Apart from labs, there is an increasing number of commercial sector,...

[ROS Q&A] 079 – add AR tag in gazebo

by Miguel Angel | Dec 11, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Learn how to add an AR 3D element in GAzebo to use it for your AR tracking programs: https://answers.ros.org/question/240392/add-ar-tag-in-gazebo/ Q: add AR tag in gazebo A: You have to generate the AR tag , then create the 3D model with the texture in blender and...

[ROS Q&A] 078 – ROS Remap

by Marco Arruda | Dec 11, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Q: Remapping between nodes How to remap between nodes in launch file. Plz guide.im using Ros indigo version A: Basically, remap is a feature to rename topics, node names and some special keys of ROS env. You can see in this page what you can remap, like a node...

[ROS Q&A] 077 – How to solve the SetMaxForce error in Gazebo

by Alberto Ezquerro | Dec 11, 2017 | ROS Q&A

In this video I'm going to show how to easily solve the following error: error: 'class gazebo::physics::Joint' has no member named 'SetParam' https://youtu.be/9s7YETNLXFc

[ROS Q&A] 076 – How to get the closest obstacle with rotating laser

by Ricardo Tellez | Dec 11, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Q: How to get the distance to obstacles given that the laser is rotating? Original question: https://answers.ros.org/question/229865/how-to-incorporate-moveable-sensor-lidar-into-navigation-stack A: By using TF to transform the obstacle detected to the...