Zero to ROS

Zero to ROS, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 46 lectures, based on 30 reviews, and has 124 subscribers.

You will learn about ROS (Robot Operating System) basics How to simulate a robot with Gazebo Robotic Navigation Robotic Perception and Obstacle Avoidance This course is ideal for individuals who are Software engineers or Robot enthusiasts or Beginner Robot Operating System or Beginner ROS It is particularly useful for Software engineers or Robot enthusiasts or Beginner Robot Operating System or Beginner ROS.

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Summary

Title: Zero to ROS

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Published Lectures: 46

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

ROS (Robot Operating System) basics

How to simulate a robot with Gazebo

Robotic Navigation

Robotic Perception and Obstacle Avoidance

Who Should Attend

Software engineers

Robot enthusiasts

Beginner Robot Operating System

Beginner ROS

Target Audiences

Software engineers

Robot enthusiasts

Beginner Robot Operating System

Beginner ROS

The “Zero to ROS” course will take you quickly into ROS. You will learn all the essential concepts through hands on examples and assignments. Learn at your own pace: no schedule!

Course Curriculum

Environment setup and Hello World:Setup your work environment with ROS Noetic and write your first Hello World project

Your first ROS Package: Learn the basics of ROS hands on, with a practical example. This section will guide you through the creation of a ROS package, ROS messages and launch files.

Robot Simulation: We will use the popular turtlesimpackage, a simple 2D robot simulator, to explain the basics of robotic simulation in ROS. You will learn hands on how to deal with transformations, how to control your robot and navigate to a waypoint

Introduction to Gazebo and Rviz: Gazebo is the popular physics simulator, compatible with ROS. Rvizis the popular visualization tool where you can display your robot position as well as sensors readings, planning Learn how to build and visualize your robot and sensors using Xacroand Urdf

Perception: Gazebo is the popular physics simulator, compatible with ROS. Rvizis the popular visualization tool where you can display your robot position as well as sensor readings, planning, etc. Learn how to build and visualize your robot and sensors using Xacroand Urdf

Obstacle Avoidance: Put everything together and use the available sensors to avoid surrounding obstacles. You will learn to think like a robotic engineer with real world challenges

Final certificate

You will get your Master Certificate if you complete all your assignments: you can learn only with practice.

There will be 5 assignments in the course, each with an increasing level of difficulty.

But don’t worry: we are here to help!  Assignments are not mandatory to complete the course, but are required to get your certificate

Direct support through Discord

Connect to our Discord server and join our community. Ask questions and submit your assignments. We are here to help!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction with Tiziano and Chris

Chapter 2: Setup your Work Environment

Lecture 1: Install Linux on the Virtual Machine

Lecture 2: Setup ROS

Lecture 3: The Catkin Workspace

Lecture 4: Setup your Github account

Lecture 5: Discord server

Lecture 6: How to submit your assignments

Chapter 3: ROS Hello World

Lecture 1: Hello World with topics in ROS

Chapter 4: Learn hands-on with your first ROS project

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create your first ROS Package

Lecture 3: Create your first ROS Publishers (in Python): Cylinders height and radius

Lecture 4: Verify published topics in the command window

Lecture 5: How to get to the Area and Volume calculated from the available topics

Lecture 6: Create your first ROS Subscriber (in Python)

Lecture 7: Create your custom ROS Message

Lecture 8: Create your Calculator Node

Lecture 9: Putting all together: get the Volume of a Cylinder with ROS (and Python)

Lecture 10: Create your first ROS Launch file

Lecture 11: Debugging your project with rqt

Chapter 5: Assignment: Create a simple calculator

Chapter 6: Your First Robot Simulator

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Control a simple Robot with your Keyboard

Lecture 3: Getting the robots pose

Lecture 4: Example: generate a square pattern for your Turtlesim

Lecture 5: How does logging work in ROS: ROSLOG

Lecture 6: How to setup and change parameters in ROS: ROSPARAM

Lecture 7: Calculate the error between two angles

Chapter 7: Assignment: 2D Navigation

Chapter 8: Introduction to Gazebo and Rviz

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to Gazebo and Rviz

Lecture 3: Create a Robot Description file Xacro

Lecture 4: Launch file for a Robot Simulation

Lecture 5: Get your Xacro file ready for Gazebo

Lecture 6: Reference Systems and the TF library

Lecture 7: Gazebo 3D environment and the TF visualization in Rviz

Lecture 8: Get the robots position and orientation by listening to the TF Publisher

Lecture 9: Example: how to import a Gazebo World in your project

Chapter 9: Assignment: 2D Navigation with Gazebo

Chapter 10: Robot Perception

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to add a Range Finder to your robot simulator using Xacro and URDF

Lecture 3: How to add the Lidar plugin to your Gazebo simulation

Lecture 4: How to visualize the Laser Scan plugin in Rviz

Lecture 5: Creating the node that converts /scan into Sonar /range topic

Lecture 6: Visualize the Sonar /range in Gazebo and Rviz

Chapter 11: Assignment: create 3 sonars

Chapter 12: Obstacle Avoidance

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Example preview in action

Lecture 3: Coding the Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm

Lecture 4: Running the example and debugging with rqt

Chapter 13: Final Assignment

Chapter 14: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Tiziano Fiorenzani
Chief Engineer at Aerovironment and Robotics enthusiast

Chris Collander
Robotics Perception PhD Candidate

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5 stars: 17 votes

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