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[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.

[ROS Q&A] 167 – Test Stereo Camera in ROS

by Miguel Angel | Nov 22, 2018 | ROS Q&A

About: This video shows how to test that a stereo camera is working. This is an answer to the question in ROS ANSWERS https://www.youtube.com/embed/-lzo1LJ8fvA Here is the ROSject of the project, just click and the whole project will be copied to your ROSDS workspace/...

Case Studies – How Softbank engineers learn complex ROS subjects fast

by The Construct | Nov 21, 2018 | ROS Q&A

SoftBank Corp. is a Japanese telecom operator, a core company of SoftBank group. We talk to Tadashi Imokawa, an engineer at SoftBank Corp. in charge of the hardware and software development of the company's robots, Tomohiko Furutani manager of the AI robot development...