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[ROS in 5 mins] 054 – How to Unit Test loading a ROS Param

by Ruben Alves | Nov 26, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

Hello ROS Developers! Welcome again to this "ROS In 5 Minutes" series. It goes without saying that when we are developing, despite everything be seemingly working as expected, sometimes as soon as we put on production we see that the code doesn't really work as...

RDP 031: Using ROSjects to reproduce robotics results with Miguel A. Rodriguez

by Ricardo Tellez | Nov 26, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

Today I'm going to talk about how to reproduce robotics results. You know, when you see that paper that says that they have done this and that with the robot. Then you want to reproduce the results so you can check if the result is correct or want to improve from that...

[ROS2 in 5 mins] 005 – How to work with ros2 topics from the command line

by Bayode Aderinola | Nov 25, 2018 | ROS2 Tutorials

Hello ROS2 developers! In this post, we'll see how to work (or play) with ROS2 topics from the command line. This is very useful for tinkering with ROS2 topics as wells as writing and debugging mission-critical ROS2 programs. Let's go, shall we? Getting Ready for the...

[ROS Q&A] 168 – What are the differences between global and local costmap

by Alberto Ezquerro | Nov 23, 2018 | ROS Q&A

About: In the following video, we are going to explain, using a simple example with Summit XL robot, what are the main differences between the global costmap and the local costmap. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qPNs6pAZGtA // RELATED LINKS ▸ Robot Ignite Academy ▸ ROS...

Teaching Robotics With ROS

by Ricardo Tellez | Nov 22, 2018 | For Campus, Robotics with ROS

Teaching subjects as complex as inverse kinematics or robot navigation should not be (just) a theoretical matter. Practice should be embedded into the teaching of those complex robotics subjects.
I propose to teach ROS at the same time that we teach robotics, and use the former along the whole robotics semester as a tool to build an implement the robotics subject we are teaching. The idea is that we use ROS to allow the student to actually practice what he is learning.