by Ilia Baranov | Mar 16, 2015 | Teaching and Learning |
Enabling the Kinect V2 for PR2 has been a little tricky. The very high bandwidth of the sensor (almost fully saturating USB 3.0) combined with the high frame-rate of the sensor means that a dedicated computer is usually needed for data processing. Luckily the PR2 team...
by Ilia Baranov | Jul 7, 2014 | Robot Forge |
On Thursday, June 26th, we celebrated our new robot badlands (aka: our brand new headquarters) with a grand opening, accompanied of course by a robot ribbon-cutting. Clearpath co-founders made their way to the stage and gathered around ‘Jake’, the PR2....
by Ilia Baranov | Jul 2, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous post, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger? Read on to learn how to drive a (virtual) Grizzly, Clearpath Robotic’s largest and meanest platform. If you are...
by Ilia Baranov | Mar 21, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the previous post out, you may want to do so before we go on. In this post, we’re...
by Ilia Baranov | Feb 4, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
Clearpath Robotics recently tested the capabilities of the ROS for MATLAB toolkit (available here: robot-operating-system.html). This is very interesting for the research and education fields, as it will allow users to take their existing MATLAB code and use it on a...
