by Ebrahim Shahrivar | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
Last month, we introduced the GPS Waypoint Navigation package, which is the ability to provide a robot with a set of GPS waypoints (i.e., a set of latitude / longitude pairs), and have the robot autonomously navigate from its current location to each of the defined...
by Tim Peckover | Jun 5, 2018 | Robot Forge, Teaching and Learning |
One of the most common things to do with a new robot is enable autonomy, or at least get started on it with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). For years, the easiest way to do this in ROS has been to utilize the open source Gmapping package, a ROS wrapper...
by Tim Peckover | Apr 25, 2018 | Robot Forge, Teaching and Learning |
Any quick search online for computing platforms for artificial intelligence or machine learning, and especially embedded modules, will lead you directly to the Jetson line from NVIDIA. Described as “AI supercomputers the size of a credit card,” these modules are the...
by Chris Bogdon | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
Martin Cooney and a team of social robotics researchers at Halmstad University are using the Baxter and Ridgeback omnidirectional platform to make improvements in people’s everyday lives. The project is called Action and Intention Recognition in Human Interaction with...
by Ilia Baranov | Feb 23, 2018 | Teaching and Learning |
As covered in our previous post on lasers there are many different factors that need to be considered when choosing a laser sensor for use in robots. In this post, we will further explore the options for a modern roboticist. Use case The first aspect to consider when...
by Chris Bogdon | May 9, 2016 | ROS Spotlight, Teaching and Learning |
A light-weight 3D camera with ROS integration The RealSense R200 camera is a new 3D camera from Intel that packs three cameras – two IR cameras (left and right) and one RGB camera – into a small, light-weight form factor. With its relative low cost, high...
