Note: This is a live article and as I get time I will update it… In this post, we are going to understand the pose-graph SLAM approach with ROS where…
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Sometimes you might need to get the robot’s actual position to compare your state estimation code. Copy paste the contents of this file (plugin_code) into your urdf description file. It…
I primarily use a Mac for my work, but since a I do a lot of robotics I have to switch over to Ubuntu to use ROS. Having a linux…
Surprisingly there is no clear cut instruction anywhere. My questions was, if I tracked an image feature from the Kinect, how would I know its 3D position? I wanted to…
I recently setup a Kinect with ROS for SLAM but the instructions are all spread out. So, in this tutorial we go through the steps required to setup a Microsoft…
Somebody recently watched this video of my previous research and asked me: “I saw a YouTube video of a project you did, and I’m fascinated with making a drone autonomous. I…
Following up from my previous post, I wanted to simulate an IRobot Create with a hokuyo laser mounted on it. I needed this to get my motion planning simulation up…
There’s no clear instructions for how to actually get your usb webcam image in ROS. Steps: 1. Install usb_cam ros package ($sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-usb-cam) 2. Create a launch file.…