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Why I Choose ROS for My Master Thesis

by The Construct | Sep 5, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

What follows is the ROS story of Simon Steinmann from Canada. Simon is a ROS student at the Robot Ignite Academy, and he wanted to share his ROS engagement with all of us. What is ROS Before going into details about my Thesis and my reasons for using ROS, let me give...

ROS2 Tutorials #6: How to create a ROS2 launch file [NEW]

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 4, 2019 | ROS2 Tutorials

About In this post, you will learn how to create a ROS2 launch file. The problem: we have a ROS2 C++ package but it has no launch file. Yes, we can run the code of this package using ros2 run..., but we also want to be able to run it using ros2 launch... Let's get to...

My Robotic Manipulator #04: URDF/Transmission + Gazebo Controllers

by Marco Arruda | Aug 30, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

URDF/Transmission + Gazebo Controllers Hey ROS developers! In this post, we will make our robot able to be spawned into Gazebo simulator. Based on the YouTube video series, we'll show in this format the steps to achieve the final result of the series! In this post...

[ROS Q&A] 191 – How to Launch the Parrot Drone Simulation Locally

by Miguel Angel | Aug 30, 2019 | Gazebo Tutorials

Welcome to the ROS Q&A series again. In this post, we are going to answer and solve a question from a user on Gazebo Answers which asks how to launch a Parrot Drone simulation locally. The question can be found here. What will you learn in this post How to spawn a...

ROS Student Simon Steinmann Shares His ROS Learning Experience

by Ricardo Tellez | Aug 26, 2019 | ROS Developers Podcast

Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to those students that aim to become ROS developers. If you are studying ROS for your undergraduate course, for your PhD thesis, for your job at a robotics company, just would to tell you that sometimes ROS can seem...