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Developing Web Interfaces For ROS Robots #4 – Streaming robot’s camera on the web page

by Marco Arruda | Feb 28, 2020 | ROS Q&A

Hello ROS Developers, This is the 4th of 4 posts of the series Developing web interfaces for ROS Robots. In this post, we are going to stream the images of the robot's camera on the webpage. 1 - Loading a new JavaScript library Before we go to the camera...

[ROS Mini Challenge] #7 – make a robot follow another robot

by Bayode Aderinola | Feb 26, 2020 | ROS Q&A, ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see how to make a robot follow another robot. We'll make the iRobot follow the big turtle all around the world when it moves, using ROS TF broadcaster and listener nodes. PS: This ROS project is part of our ROS Mini Challenge series, which gives...

ROS Mini Challenge #6 – detect the position of a robot using ROS Service

by Ruben Alves | Feb 22, 2020 | ROS Q&A

What we are going to learn Learn how to get the position and orientation of a robot, when someone asks through ROS Services. List of resources used in this post The ROSject of the project with the simulation and...

Developing Web Interfaces For ROS Robots #3 – Building a web joystick to control the robot

by Marco Arruda | Feb 21, 2020 | ROS Q&A

Hello ROS Developers, This is the 3rd of 4 posts of the series Developing web interfaces for ROS Robots. In this post, we are going to create a "joystick" to send velocity commands to a robot from the webpage. 1 - Creating the HTML First we are going to create the...

[ROS Mini Challenge] #5 – make a robot detect and avoid an obstacle

by Bayode Aderinola | Feb 19, 2020 | ROS Q&A, ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see how to make a robot detect and avoid an obstacle in its front. We will move the robot forward until it detects there's an obstacle (the wall) closer than 1 meter. Then, we will stop the robot so that it does not collide with the wall. PS:...