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ROS Q&A | How to Start Programming Drones using ROS

by Marco Arruda | Aug 21, 2017 | ROS Q&A

In this video answer, we walk through the basics of a Parrot AR Drone Gazebo simulation. You will learn the topics provided by the simulation and how to use a ROS program to interact, sending commands or reading sensors, with this robot. [irp posts="8190"...

[ROS Q&A] 003 – How to control a Gazebo simulated robot with MoveIt! ? (UR5)

by Alberto Ezquerro | Aug 21, 2017 | ROS Q&A

In this ROS video tutorial we will show you a quick example of how to control a Gazebo simulated ur5 robotic arm with MoveIt!. https://youtu.be/j6bBxfD_bYs * Get all the ROS code of the video in this link: http://www.rosject.io/l/c3b7cee/ Step 1. Create...

ROS Q&A | Why print works but rospy.loginfo doesn’t?

by Ruben Alves | Aug 19, 2017 | ROS Q&A

When we are developing ROS Programs, it's common to use "print" or "rospy.loginfo" to print some text on the screen in order to see if our program is working as expected. The problem is that sometimes the "rospy.loginfo" doesn't work and we have no idea why it...

ROS Q&A | How to create and spawn humans in Gazebo7

by Miguel Angel | Aug 16, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Here you have a fast tutorial for creating your own human models in a format that can be spawned in Gazebo7 without any problems. You will use makehuman software and ROS Development Studio for showing all this. If you are interested in any element of the video...

ROS Q&A | How to start with OpenAI + ROS fast

by The Construct | Aug 16, 2017 | ROS Q&A

A video describes an already set up online environment where to teach ROS based robots to do things using the Open AI Gym. Everything is already set up and working. You just have to modify the environments to your necessities. [irp posts="8239" name="Using...