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[ROS Q&A] 159 – How to create a Restricted Area on a Map

by Alberto Ezquerro | Oct 15, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In the following video, we are going to show how to create a restricted area (the robot cannot go in) in a Map generated with gmapping. https://youtu.be/GV2r4A0uk3o RELATED LINKS ▸ Robot Ignite Academy ▸ ROS Development Studio (ROSDS) ▸ Original Question We love...

[Gazebo Q&A] 004 – How to create a Planar Moving Element in Gazebo ROS

by Miguel Angel | Oct 15, 2018 | Gazebo Tutorials

In this video, you will learn two methods to move an element on the plane, ground level. This first one is using two prismatic joints working together to achieve this planar movement. The second is creating a custom plugin that sets the speeds of the model to move...

RDP 025: Hardware Robot Operating System (or H-ROS) With Victor Mayoral

by Ricardo Tellez | Oct 15, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode I talk to Victor Mayoral, CTO of Erle/Acutronic about their Hardware ROS (or better known as H-ROS). We will talk about how they have implemented this hardware framework for building ROS based robots by combining hardware parts that natively...

Testing Different OpenAI RL Algorithms With ROS And Gazebo

by Ricardo Tellez | Oct 11, 2018 | Gazebo Tutorials, Robotics with ROS, ROS Q&A

This post was written by Miguel A. Rodriguez and Ricardo Tellez In this post we are going to see how to test different reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms from the OpenAI framework in the same robot trying to solve the same task. We are going to use the...

RDP 024: Using ROS 2 For Autonomous Cars With Dejan Pangercic

by Ricardo Tellez | Oct 9, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, I talk to Dejan Pangercic, the CTO of APEX.AI a company that is creating the first fork of ROS 2 to create a new operating system for autonomous cars based on ROS: The Apex.OS. Dejan explains us why ROS2 is the way to go for autonomous cars,...