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Exploring ROS with a 2 Wheeled Robot #5 – Obstacle Avoidance

by Marco Arruda | May 15, 2019 | Robotics with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Obstacle Avoidance In this tutorial, we will learn what is an obstacle avoidance algorithm and how it works. Let's go! https://youtu.be/PyC4Vj3NUUY STEP 1 First thing, let's open our ROSject finished in the previous post. If you don't have it, just copy my own version...

RDP 045: Using ROS on Jupyter notebooks with Wolf Vollprecht

by Ricardo Tellez | May 13, 2019 | ROS Developers Podcast

Today, we dedicate the podcast to all those ROS developers that are having trouble visualizing their ROS data in QT windows. Too much work, too complex, too much compilation... For all of you there suffering this problem, stay tuned to today's episode because we may...

Create ROS Server to Access Pan & Tilt

by Miguel Angel | May 8, 2019 | Real Robots with ROS

About Learn how to create a ROS node server and some custom messages to access the real Pan & Tilt. This way any ROS program will be able to access the Pan & Tilt and will serve as the base for creating a simulation in the next video....

Exploring ROS with a 2 Wheeled Robot #4 – Laser Scan Reading

by Marco Arruda | May 4, 2019 | Robotics with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Hello ROS Developers! In this post, we summarize the video - Exploring ROS using a 2 Wheeled Robot ep. 4, where we start using the Laser Scan data. Let's start! https://youtu.be/DjrjUeHwako First thing, let's open our ROSject finished with the previous post. We had...

[ROS Q&A] 187 – Unable to use data received in callback function

by Alberto Ezquerro | May 3, 2019 | ROS Q&A

Learn the proper use of ROS spin for a ROS subscriber so that the data received in the callback function can be accessed. This is an answer to a question on the ROS Answers forum. Let's go! Related Resources ROS Development Studio (ROSDS) Robot Ignite Academy ROS for...