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ROS and RViz

The robot software stack and its 3D viewer

What ROS is and how its programs talk to each other, one small program per idea, then a camera, an arm and the two together. It ends with RViz, the 3D viewer that shows you what the robot thinks is happening.

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  1. 01

    ROS Basics

    This area explains ROS, the software most robots are built with, using the three smallest programs that show what it does. The first works with a camera, the second moves an arm, and the third uses the two together, so that the…

    5 sections · 1 h

    1. 1.1ROS: the basics15 min
    2. 1.2ROS basics: one program per thing ROS does13 min
    3. 1.3ROS camera: publishing and receiving pictures13 min
    4. 1.4ROS arm: moving an arm13 min
    5. 1.5ROS camera and arm: pointing at what the camera sees7 min
  2. 02

    RViz and the 3D View

    A small project for learning RViz on a Mac.

    1 section · 15 min

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