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[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...

Using Webots Robot Simulator With ROS With Olivier Michel

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 23, 2019 | ROS Developers Podcast

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that use simulations as a key element in their ROS development. I mean, you use the simulation to test your programs until they work properly in it and then, and only then, you move to the real robot...

What is ROS?

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 20, 2019 | ROS Q&A

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOT OPERATING SYSTEM (ROS) If you are reading this, it is because you either are or you want to become a ROS developer. Basically a ROS developer is somebody who wants to build programs for robots based on ROS. Yeah, but what is ROS? How can I learn...