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[ROS Q&A] 152 – Publish on a topic for a certain period of time

by Alberto Ezquerro | Sep 3, 2018 | ROS Q&A

This video tries to answer the following question found in the ROS Answers forum In the video, we'll show how to publish on a topic for a certain period of time by using the rospy Timer class, which allows to trigger events at a certain time....

[ROS in 5 mins] 032 – How to compile ROS Action messages

by Ruben Alves | Sep 3, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

Hello ROS Developers! In today's tutorial we are going learn how to create a ROS Action specification file, how to compile ROS Action messages and how to import them. You can run the commands used along the video in your own computer if you have ROS installed, but you...

RDP 020: ROS Agriculture With Kyler Laird

by Ricardo Tellez | Sep 3, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode with talk withh Kyler Laird about how to apply ROS to agricultural machines. Kyler will explain his experiences creating autonomous tractors. He will also talk about the ROS Agriculture group created to spread ROS among farmers. Selected quote: The ROS...

[ROS Q&A] 150 – How to publish data changed in Dynamic Reconfigure

by Marco Arruda | Aug 27, 2018 | ROS Q&A

This video shows how to use dynamic reconfigure client to change or receive updates about dynamic parameter value updates inside your node. Using a dynamic reconfigure client allows you to interact with these parameters outside the server node....

[ROS Q&A] 151 – Rviz receives LaserScan messages but doesn’t display them

by Alberto Ezquerro | Aug 27, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In the video, we'll show how to properly visualize LaserScan messages in RViz. https://youtu.be/S4U1aEO-35c RELATED LINKS ▸ Robot Ignite Academy ▸ ROS Basics course ▸ ROS Development Studio (ROSDS) ▸ Original question Step 0. Create a project in ROS Development...