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Movelt! Camp: Learning Movelt! with Sawyer robot in 5 weeks!

by The Construct | Aug 13, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

In this series of videos we are going to learn how to use MoveIt! package with industrial robots. In this series we are going to use the Sawyer robot by Rethink Robotics. Remember that you can follow all the steps with us at the same time by using the ROS Development...

[ROS in 5 mins] 022 – What is a ROS publisher?

by Bayode Aderinola | Aug 13, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

In this post, we will see what a ROS publisher is all about in just about five minutes! We'll also see how it relates to ROS nodes and topics. Let's go! Step 1: Grab a copy of the Project (ROSject) on ROSDS Get it...

[ROS Q&A] 148 – ROS CPP Time and Duration arithmetics build error

by Marco Arruda | Aug 11, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this video we are going to explain about a problem trying to build a ROS C++ node using ros::Time and ros::Duration. It is because the order of the terms in sum operation matters. You can check in the video it is simple to solve but it can be a trap if you do not...

[ROS Q&A] 147 – How to make a Python file executable?

by Arif Rahman | Aug 7, 2018 | ROS Q&A

One of the most frequent question that we get in our customer support channels is an error when trying to 'rosrun' a Python file. The package is there, the file is there, the command has been typed in correctly, but it doesn't want to run. Sounds familiar? This...

[ROS in 5 mins] 021 – What is a ROS Subscriber

by Ruben Alves | Aug 7, 2018 | ROS Tutorials

Hello ROS Developers! In today's video we are going to see what is ROS Subscriber and how to see a list of them in a ROS Topic. Before we start, if you are new to ROS and want to Learn ROS Fast, I highly recommend you to take any of the following courses on...