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100. Towards Assured Robot Autonomy with ROS, with Patrick Musau

by Sonia | Jan 17, 2022 | ROS Developers Podcast

Now let me introduce you Patrick Musau, who is a graduated research assistant at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems of Vanderbilt University at the USA. He recently delivered an interesting presentation at the ROS World 2021 entitled Towards Assured...

[ROS2 Q&A] 223 – How to get robot position using transforms in ROS2

by Ruben Alves | Jan 14, 2022 | ROS Q&A

What we are going to learn How to set up the TurtleBot3 packages in ROS How to use transforms to obtain robot position List of resources used in this post The Construct: https://app.theconstructsim.com/ Repositories: https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3...

Jetbot Series – Chapter 1 – Crowd Simulation in Gazebo

by Marco Arruda | Jan 12, 2022 | ROS Q&A

In this post you will see how to launch very easily a simulation in Gazebo with human crowd simulation and your most loved robot: Jetbot! This will be used as starting point for the next videos for doing people recognition, tracking, navigation and much more. In order...

[ROS2 Q&A] 222 – How to use hidden /cmd_vel topic with ros1_bridge

by Ruben Alves | Jan 7, 2022 | ROS Q&A

What we are going to learn How to launch ros1_bridge How to use available topics that don't show up How to connect to The Construct's Real Robot Lab RoBoX List of resources used in this post The Construct: https://app.theconstructsim.com/ RoBoX Real Robot Lab:...

[ROS2 Q&A] 226 – Work with ROS2 turtlesim

by Marco Arruda | Jan 5, 2022 | ROS Q&A

In this post it will be shown how to work with Turtlesim with ROS 2, one of the best ways of testing ROS2 features with a very simple simulation Configuring environment In order to do that in a way anyone can reproduce, let's use the App of TheconstructSim. Start by...