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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...

The DogBot Quadruped for AI Research With Greg Epps

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 19, 2019 | ROS Developers Podcast

Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to those ROS developers that are creating a robotics startup based on real robots. I mean hardware!! And you make your robots based on ROS. Yeah you are the best! For the brave, this podcast is dedicated to you! And today,...

[ROS in 5 mins] 028 – What is Gazebo simulation?

by Bayode Aderinola | Sep 18, 2019 | Gazebo Tutorials, ROS Tutorials

Gazebo is a leader in robot simulation. It is a tool relied upon by hundreds of thousands of users and developers around the world. Perhaps you have heard "Gazebo simulation" many times, but you don't know exactly what it is or how it works. In this post, you will...

My Robotic Manipulator #05: ROS Controllers and XACRO

by Marco Arruda | Sep 17, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

Hey ROS Developers! In this 5th post of the series, we will expand the controllers to all the joints of our manipulator! Before finishing the post, you will be able to control and calibrate the controllers using graphical tools such as RQT Publisher and RQT...

[ROS Q&A] 195 – How to know if robot has moved one meter using Odometry

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 13, 2019 | ROS Q&A

Learn how to know if the robot has moved one-meter using Odometry. You'll learn how to: create a Python program for calculating the distance moved by the robot using the Odometry topic and publish it into a topic. create a Python program for testing that we can move...