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ROS Q&A | How to change Gravity in Gazebo with Python

by Miguel Angel | Oct 5, 2017 | ROS Q&A

This is a video answer to the question formulated in GAzeboAnswers: http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/17157/how-to-change-gravity-in-python-codequestions-on-reseting-the-model/

ROS Q&A | How to launch a node using a ROS program

by Marco Arruda | Oct 4, 2017 | ROS Q&A

In this video, we show how you can launch a node using another node. That's a way of automatizing some tasks, instead of starting everything manually, you can program it!

ROS Q&A | Showing my own URDF model in Gazebo

by Ricardo Tellez | Oct 3, 2017 | ROS Q&A

This is a video answer to the question formulated in ROSAnswers about not being able to spawn his own URDF robot model in the simulator: https://answers.ros.org/question/271978/error-while-launching-robot-model/

ROS Q&A | How to know if new message is different from previous message in a subscribed rostopic?

by Ruben Alves | Oct 2, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Hi all, when working with ROS, on almost 99% of the cases we use ROS Topics. There are some scenarios where we only can "do something" when a message published on a topic is different from a previous message. In this video we show how to solve this by answering...

How to Start with Self-Driving Cars Using ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 29, 2017 | Robotics with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Self-driving cars are inevitable. In recent years, self-driving car research is becoming the main direction of automotive companies. BMW, Bosch, Google, Baidu, Toyota, GE, Tesla, Ford, Uber, and Volvo are investing in autonomous driving research. Also, many new...