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ROS Q&A | How to check the distance to an obstacle using a laser?

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 1, 2017 | ROS Q&A

In this video you will see a very easy example about how to check the distance to an obstacle using a laser:

ROS Q&A | Using git with ROS Development Studio

by Ricardo Tellez | Aug 29, 2017 | ROS Q&A

You can synchronize your ROS projects developed in the ROS Development Studio with a git. Sometimes, you must work in cooperation with other developers. Hence you will have to synchronize the work of the whole teamby means of a git. This video will show you how...

ROS Q&A | Move a certain distance, turn, then move (using odometry topic)

by Marco Arruda | Aug 28, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Hello Developers, In a quick approach to make a robot move, we can start using some determined points or behaviors. In this post, we are going to test a simple algorithm that makes Turtlebot 2 performs a movement in a straight line, turn right and go straight again....

The Need For Robotics Standards

by Ricardo Tellez | Aug 25, 2017 | Robotics with ROS

Last week I was talking to one lead engineer of a Singapore company which is building a benchmarking system for robot solutions. Having seen my presentation at ROSCON2016 about robot benchmarking, he asked me how would I benchmark solutions that are non-ROS...

ROS Q&A | Merge Laser Scans into single PointCloud

by Ricardo Tellez | Aug 22, 2017 | ROS Q&A

I have been playing around with the laser_assembler ROS package and managed to make it work for assembling several laser scans into a single point cloud, and publish that point cloud on a topic. What I have done is the following: 1- I created a package that...