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Go to point program for ground robots using ActionLib

by Marco Arruda | Jul 10, 2017 | Robotics with ROS

Navigation is one of the challenging tasks in robotics. It's not a simple task. To reach a goal or follow a trajectory, the robot must know the environment using and localize itself through sensors and a map. But when we have a robot that has this information already,...

[ROS Q&A] How to import python modules from different ROS packages

by Miguel Angel | Jul 10, 2017 | ROS Q&A

Learn how to import python modules from other packages and make them available for all the system. Also learn how to correctly install python scripts and modules. https://youtu.be/9bgrzZ45HMA Step 0. Create a project in ROS Development Studio(ROSDS) ROSDS helps...

How to learn ROS?

by Yuhong Lin | Jun 19, 2017 | ROS Q&A

ROS (Robot Operating System) is a common robot software platform which intents to integrate the world’s robotics research energy, and is completely open source. Anyone could just install ROS and immediately get access to all the resources that ROS integrates....

Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym on ROS Development Studio

by Miguel Angel | May 3, 2017 | Robotics with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Imagine how easy it would be to learn skating, if only it doesn't hurt everytime you fall. Unfortunately, we, humans, don't have that option. Robots, however, can now "learn" their skills on a simulation platform without being afraid of crashing into a wall....

Teaching ROS Fast To Many Students

by Ricardo Tellez | Apr 25, 2017 | For Campus, ROS Q&A

Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of the University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS (Robot Operating System) to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of University of Weingarten, use only a...