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My Journey through ROS

by The Construct | Oct 4, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

What follows is the ROS story of Paschalis Pelitaris from France. Paschalis is a ROS student at the Robot Ignite Academy, and he wanted to share his ROS engagement with all of us. How my interest grew From an early age, I was fascinated by the notion of autonomous...

Start Coding on ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 30, 2019 | ROS Tutorials

In order to create ROS programs, you will need a C++ or Python code editor. In this chapter, we are going to show you a list of integrated environments for programming ROS with those languages. Many others do exist, but we are putting the most complete and easy to...

[ROS in 5 mins] 025 – What is Rviz?

by Bayode Aderinola | Sep 25, 2019 | ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see what Rviz is all about and how to use it. We are going to use a ROS1 installation for this, but you don’t need to install ROS, as we will use the ROS Development Studio (ROSDS), an online platform that provides access to ROS1 or ROS2...

[ROS Q&A] 196 – How to Output Odometry Data

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 24, 2019 | ROS Q&A

In this post, you will learn how to access and output odometry data programmatically. More specifically, you will learn how to create a C++ program for subscribing to and printing different parts of the odometry message. This is useful for cases where you need to make...

ROS for Beginners: How to Learn ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 23, 2019 | ROS Tutorials

Now is the moment to start learning ROS. We find many people that are new to ROS lack the basic skills necessary to start programming in ROS. That is why we have included a section of prerequisites here that you must meet before trying to get into ROS. PREREQUISITES...