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ROS2 Tutorials #8: How to communicate between ROS1 & ROS2 with ros1_bridge

by Alberto Ezquerro | Oct 6, 2019 | ROS2 Tutorials

In this post, you will learn how to communicate between ROS1 & ROS2 with ros1_bridge. You will see how to set up the ros1_bridge package in order to send ROS2 commands to control a TurtleBot2 simulation running in ROS1 Melodic. Step 1: Grab a copy of the Project...

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...