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ROS Q&A | Create an obstacle that cannot be stepped in for Gazebo Simulator

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

Let's learn how to create an obstacle in Gazebo. Here you have the video response of how to do this test: Here I leave the main things I used to test it and some system information: Information System: Ubuntu 14.04.5 trusty ROS Version: indigo Gazebo 7.4.0 I...

ROS Q&A | How to create an actuated Hexapod with PID in Gazebo? (Video)

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

I know this is an old question but I think even now because knowing how to create an hexapod with plugin that moves the robot around and with an SDF model not a URDF might be useful to someone. Check this video answer which explaining a bit the process and the...

ROS Q&A | Treating quaternions for 2D navigation

by Marco Arruda | Jul 31, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Are you having problems to make your robot navigate because of the kind of data you have to treat? It's very common to get stuck when we have to work with quaternions, instead of RPY angles. Quaternions are used in robotics to represent the rotation, in 3 axis, of a...

ROSDS | How to put your simulations publicly available in RDS

by Alberto Ezquerro | Jul 18, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Are you interested in sharing your robot simulations with other people? Would you like to have them used by many people? Then the best thing you can do is to have it available in RDS! The ROS Development Studio (RDS), is a web and cloud based application where...

Teach ROS | How To Manage The Access Of Your Students

by Ruben Alves | Jul 18, 2017 | ROS Q&A

If you are a Robotics Teacher and want to teach ROS effectively, you definitely should try the Robot Ignite Academy platform. Since you can teach many students, today we will show you how to manage multi licenses. Once logged in, you just click on the Manage Licenses...