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Developing Web Interfaces For ROS Robots #2 – Adding styles to the ROS control web page

by Marco Arruda | Feb 14, 2020 | ROS Q&A

Hello ROS Developers, This is the 2nd of 4 posts of the series Developing web interfaces for ROS Robots. In this post, we are going to add some styles to the web page using a very popular framework: Bootstrap. Furthermore, we will add a JavaScript framework to make...

[ROS Mini Challenge] #3 – make a manipulator robot execute a trajectory

by Bayode Aderinola | Feb 12, 2020 | ROS Q&A, ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see how to configure MoveIt to make a manipulator robot execute a trajectory based on a Position Goal. We send a Position Goal to the manipulator, and the robot computes and executes a trajectory plan in order to reach this goal. PS: This ROS...

[ROS Mini Challenge] #2 – Make a robot navigate to a specific location

by Ruben Alves | Feb 8, 2020 | ROS Q&A

What we are going to learn How to make a ROS-based robot navigate using RViz's 2D Nav Goal How to solve the ROSject Of The Week Challenge #2, making a robot move to a specific position List of resources used in this post The ROSject of the project with the...

Developing Web Interfaces For ROS Robots #1 – Introduction to ROSBridge Server

by Marco Arruda | Feb 7, 2020 | ROS Q&A

Hello ROS Developers, This is the 1st of 4 posts of the series Developing web interfaces for ROS Robots. In this post, we are going to introduce the ROSBridge server and make some basic communication using a simple web page. It's based on the video series, but...

[ROS Mini Challenge] #1 – Make a robot rotate according to user input

by Bayode Aderinola | Feb 5, 2020 | ROS Q&A, ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see how to write a ROS program (in Python) to make a robot rotate according to user input. We are going to fix an error in the code that prevents this program from working as we go on. PS: This ROS project is part of our ROS Mini Challenge...