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A History Of ROS (podcast)

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 11, 2019 | ROS Developers Podcast

ROS (Robot Operating System) is now very popular among roboticists. Researchers, hobbyists, and even robotics companies are using it, promoting it and supporting it. However, it was not always like that. Do you know ROS history? In the early days, ROS was an unknown...

[ROS Q&A] 193 – How to load a pre-built octomap into MoveIt

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 6, 2019 | ROS Q&A

About Learn how to load a pre-built octomap into MoveIt!. You'll learn: Create a Python program for loading an octomap into MoveIt Set Up MoveIt to detect this octomap https://youtu.be/Ib1ISnLlD38 RELATED ROS RESOURCES&LINKS: ROSject ---▸...

[ROS Q&A] 192 – Add Pressure sensors in Gazebo Simulation for DogBot

by Miguel Angel | Sep 6, 2019 | ROS Q&A

What will you learn in this post How to add pressure sensors in gazebo simulation using the DogBot robot. How to convert XACRO into SDF List of resources used in this post The ROSject with the code used in this post. Git of DogBot simulation, in case you don’t want to...

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...