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[ROSDS] 008 – Use MoveIt with PR2 robot in ROS Kinetic Gazebo Easy Guide

by Miguel Angel | Jan 15, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

What we are going to learn Learn the basics of how to use MoveIt! to move the end effectors of both arms of the PR2 robot simulation in Gazebo. List of resources used in this post The ROSject of the project wit the simulation and the ROS Packages....

How to create & test a Publisher in ROS2 (Python)

by Bayode Aderinola | Jan 14, 2019 | ROS2 Tutorials

Hello ROS developers! In this post lets' see how to create and test a publisher in ROS2 using Python (rclpy). I break it down into "5 easy steps", let's see one by one: Create a Python-based package in ROS2. Create the python code for your publisher. Edit package.xml....

[ROS Q&A] 174 – How to extract the middle data from LaserScan ranges

by Alberto Ezquerro | Jan 11, 2019 | ROS Q&A

In this video we're going to show you how to extract the middle data from a LaserScan message ranges value, using a very simple Python example. https://youtu.be/RcHgpHPR8uE RELATED ROS RESOURCES&LINKS: ROS Development Studio (ROSDS) Robot Ignite Academy ---...

[ROS Q&A] 173 – How to create Launch Files in ROS2

by Alberto Ezquerro | Dec 27, 2018 | ROS Q&A, ROS2 Tutorials

In this video we're going to show you how to create launch files in ROS2, compared with how we did for ROS1. RELATED ROS RESOURCES&LINKS: ROS Development Studio (ROSDS) ---▸ http://rosds.online Robot Ignite Academy --▸ https://www.robotigniteacademy.com Enjoy...

[ROS in 5 mins] 057 – How to publish the position of a robot using TransformBroadcaster in python

by Ruben Alves | Dec 24, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

Hello ROS Developers, welcome to this new post on the "ROS In 5 Minutes" series! In this post we are going to see how to publish the position of a robot with Python using the TransformBroadcaster. For that we are going to use Robot Ignite Academy, which is the best...