ROS Developers Podcast

ROS Developers Podcast

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ROS Developers Podcast episodes

  • 76. The ROS2 Navigation Stack With Steve Macenski

    Show notes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/76-ros2-navigation-stack-with-steve-macenski

    One of the problems to move to ROS2 was the lack of a stable navigation system for ROS2 robots. But as you will learn today, this problem has been solved. So if you want to move to ROS2 and want to try to make a robot navigate, then this episode is dedicated to you.

    1 hr 3 min
  • DRACO: A ROS based liquid cooled bipedal platform with Luis Sentis

    Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/?p=20895

    Luis Sentis is an associated professor in aerospace engineering at University of Austin in Texas and a holds a PhD from Stanford about humanoid robots. He is also founder of Apptronik Systems and member of the board. Apptronik a company developing actuators and controllers for robots with high power and high efficiency. They are about to launch their latest product, the DRACO bipedal platform, which relies on their actuators and controllers and works with ROS.

    49 min
  • The new generation of State Machines for ROS with Brett Aldrich



    This episode is dedicated to all those people that are designing the behaviour of their robots for the Robocup competition.



    Today we are going to about evolving state machines from the original SMACH



    But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.



    Now let’s talk with Brett Aldrich. Brett is the CEO of REEL ROBOTix, a company that is in the process of putting to the market some hardware for robots (secret yet!). However, within that company, Brett found the necessity to give a different approach to State Machines inside ROS. For that he developed SMACC. Today, Brett is going to explain us what is all about this SMACC and how we can use it for our robotics projects.



    Welcome to the podcast Brett!







    Related links:



    * Follow Brett Aldrich on LinkedIn* Reel Robotix, Brett’s company* SMACC Repo* The SMACC Viewer* The SMACC Rviz pluguin* Boost Statechart* Boost MSM* Boost MPL* Podcast interview to Davide Faconti about Behavior Trees







    Subscribe to the podcast using any of the following methods



    * ROS Developers Podcast on iTunes* ROS Developers Podcast on Stitcher



    Or listen to it on Spotify:



    * ROS Developers Podcast on Spotify




    58 min
  • 074 The new generation of State Machines for ROS with Brett Aldrich

    Shownotes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/the-new-generation-of-state-machines-for-ros-with-brett-aldrich

    Today we are going to about evolving state machines from the original SMACH

    Brett is the CEO of REEL ROBOTix, a company that is in the process of putting to the market some hardware for robots (secret yet!). However, within that company, Brett found the necessity to give a different approach to State Machines inside ROS. For that he developed SMACC. Today, Brett is going to explain us what is all about this SMACC and how we can use it for our robotics projects.

    58 min
  • RDP073 - Which ROS Robot to Buy for Education

    In case you are thinking about buying some robots for your class on robotics, here you are going to find a list of some of the most interesting ones, based on my own experience as teacher of robotics at University of LaSalle Barcelona.

    The list contains a series of robots that you as a teacher can consider buying for making your students practice with real robots using ROS.

    Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/which-ros-robot-to-buy-for-education?

    26 min
  • ROBOAds: using robots to market services with Faysal ElChamaa





    This episode is dedicated to all those people that are building business on top of ROS. I mean, people that take existing ROS packages, existing ROS robots, existing ROS applications and integrates all that into a product. A product that sells.



    Today we are going to chat with one of those professionals that have started a very interesting business on top of ROS. And I can tell you that the idea is quite original!



    But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named the Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. We start by teaching you Linux for robotics and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.



    Now let’s talk with Faysal ElChamaa. Faysal is the main director of RoboAds, a company devoted to the creation of robots that can display ads on screens moving around a space. Faysal explains how he decided to take this idea from a different direction from current advertising robots, how their business model works, how is his company using ROS in the robots and what are the plans of the future for the robot with the COVID pandemia.



    Welcome to the podcast Faysal!



    Related links:



    * Follow Faysal ElChamaa on LinkedIn* RoboAds company



    A video of the robots themselves:







    * The Summit XL robot by Robotnik company.







    Subscribe to the podcast using any of the following methods



    * ROS Developers Podcast on iTunes* ROS Developers Podcast on Stitcher



    Or listen to it on Spotify:



    * ROS Developers Podcast on Spotify




    39 min
  • ROBOAds: using robots to market services with Faysal ElChama

    Today we are going to chat with one of those professionals that have started a very interesting business on top of ROS. He provides robots to really market products.

    He will clearly describe the reasoning behind the creation of that business and why it is completely different from current robot based marketing efforts like Pepper and the like.

    Shownotes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/?p=20017

    39 min
  • The Autoware Foundation (self-driving cars) with Joshua Whitley





    This episode is dedicated to all those people that were impressed by that TV series named the Knight Rider. You know, about that autonomous car named KITT which had adventure with his owner Michael Knight and solving crimes everywhere. I was influenced by that car and how it was able to move around autonomously and I’m sure that many other out there working on autonomous cars were also influenced.



    Today we are going to talk about the Autoware foundation and how it is pushing forward the creation of self-driving cars powered by ROS.



    But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named the Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.



    Now let me introduce you Joshua Whitley. Joshua is software architect at the Autoware Foundation since February this year. He has 5 years of experience developing software for autonomous robots. He is also one of the teachers of the course about self-driving cars with ROS and autoware that is being released these days.







    Related Links



    * Follow Joshua Whitley on LinkedIn* The Autoware Foundation* The Autoware.AI project* The Autoware.Auto project* The Autoware.IO project* Apex.AI company, main developer of Autoware.Auto* Tier IV company, main developer of Autoware.AI* The online free course about autonomous cars: Self-Driving cars with Autoware and ROS.



    Subscribe to the podcast using any of the following methods



    * ROS Developers Podcast on iTunes* ROS Developers Podcast on Stitcher



    Or listen to it on Spotify:



    * ROS Developers Podcast on Spotify




    32 min

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Become an expert in robot programming with ROS by listening to the experts. Every week, we interview an expert in robot programming with ROS who will give us tips and tricks based on his experience.…