RDP 007: Making Aibo Walk Again With ROS With Cecilio Angulo
In this session of The ROS Developers Podcast, I chat with Cecilio Angulo, associate professor at Technical University of Catalonia and director of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center. We will talk about a project he started to bring Aibo robot back to life again by using ROS.
He talks about how the whole thing started and why. Then he describes the different parts implemented in the Aibo ROSification and how the Aibo simulation in Gazebo is important for the development. He also describes the application that makes several Aibo imitate to each other by connecting all of them through a ROS node, as well as the modules for accessing different sensors of Aibo. Finally, we talk about how to make a ROSified Aibo reproduce the famous MTN (motion) files that Sone generated containing predefined movements.
Selected quote to from the interview
By ROSifying the Aibo robot, you can apply reinforcement learning, dynamic motion primitives, deal with all the images using deep learning… all the ROS world is there to be used with the robot.
Cecilio Angulo
Related links
- Cecilio Angulo LinkedIn profile
- Follow Cecilio on Twitter
- Open-R original programming environment for Aibo
- Urbi robotics framework
- libUrbi: library to connect your programs to an Urbi server
- Gostai company
- ROS Development Studio (with Aibo simulation ready to launch).
- Download the Aibo simulation from The Construct public repo (working for Gazebo 7 with Indigo).
- The whole git with the Aibo server and other tools to make Aibo work with ROS
- Papers published about the ROSification of Aibo:
- Integracion de la plataforma AIBO con ROS, by Diego Muñoz (in Spanish)
- Conectando el Robot AIBO a ROS: Extraccion de imagenes, by Lucıa Lillo-Fantova, Ricardo A. Tellez, Manel Velasco, Cecilio Angulo (in Spanish)
- Series of videos that teach how to make Aibo walk again with ROS
- The ROS Developers Conference (July 7th & 8th).
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