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Jetbot Series – Chapter 1 – Crowd Simulation in Gazebo

by Marco Arruda | Jan 12, 2022 | ROS Q&A

In this post you will see how to launch very easily a simulation in Gazebo with human crowd simulation and your most loved robot: Jetbot! This will be used as starting point for the next videos for doing people recognition, tracking, navigation and much more. In order...

[ROS2 Q&A] 222 – How to use hidden /cmd_vel topic with ros1_bridge

by Ruben Alves | Jan 7, 2022 | ROS Q&A

What we are going to learn How to launch ros1_bridge How to use available topics that don't show up How to connect to The Construct's Real Robot Lab RoBoX List of resources used in this post The Construct: https://app.theconstructsim.com/ RoBoX Real Robot Lab:...

[ROS2 Q&A] 226 – Work with ROS2 turtlesim

by Marco Arruda | Jan 5, 2022 | ROS Q&A

In this post it will be shown how to work with Turtlesim with ROS 2, one of the best ways of testing ROS2 features with a very simple simulation Configuring environment In order to do that in a way anyone can reproduce, let's use the App of TheconstructSim. Start by...

99. 2021 ROS Recap

by Ricardo Tellez | Dec 30, 2021 | ROS Developers Podcast

Hello ROS Developers! The 2021 is about to finish. Another year in pandemic mode! I thought that the last week of the year would be a good moment to review how has it been the year for our favorite robotics framework. In this video we are going to evaluate the year...

[ROS Q&A] 225 – Setup your ROS2 Workspace with Unlimited Node Files

by Marco Arruda | Dec 29, 2021 | ROS Q&A

In this post it will be shown how to organize your ROS2 package in such manner that allows you to have as many python scripts as you need. It is a quite simple way of doing it, but can be confusing for those who are coming from ROS 1. Let's check it out! Configuring...