Programming for Robotics (ROS) Course 1

The slides are available here:

The recording of this course is part of the Programming for Robotics (ROS) Lecture at ETH Zurich:

Lecturers:
Péter Fankhauser, Dominic Jud, Martin Wermelinger

Course 1 covers following topics:
– ROS architecture & philosophy
– ROS master, nodes, and topics
– Console commands
– Catkin workspace and build system
– Launch-files
– Gazebo simulator

About the course:
This course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS) including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different examples, the course should provide a good starting point for students to work with robots. They learn how to create software including simulation, to interface sensors and actuators, and to integrate control algorithms.

Objective:
– ROS architecture: Master, nodes, topics, messages, services, parameters and actions
– Console commands: Navigating and analyzing the ROS system and the catkin workspace
– Creating ROS packages: Structure, launch-files, and best practices
– ROS C++ client library (roscpp): Creating your own ROS C++ programs
– Simulating with ROS: Gazebo simulator, robot models (URDF) and simulation environments (SDF)
– Working with visualizations (RViz) and user interface tools (rqt)
– Inside ROS: TF transformation system, time, bags

[mlherdgn]

This is an awesome introductory lecture about ROS. Please keep posting more lectures.

[annascott]

I have been struggling ROS since last couple of weeks. Everybody starts with installing and then some example also they have a title that it's for beginners :(

This the only session I have ended up is exactly for one who is really a beginner. After watching first half of the video I could connect dots.

Thanks to the whole team :)

[Robson-dhun]

Very nice to know in a light way what Robot Operating Stystems is. I reccomend this video to everyone who has time, a little patiance and most impportant, interest in learning the subjetc with you are propably about to start working.
Nice job ! Congrats !

[sufyanraza]

The lecture was perfect how ever i am facing problems in installing the husky-simulator package(the one given in exercise) i am using kinetic distribution

[scoobysnaks]

Thanks a ton for this! Its a great refresher for my upcoming job interview

[MaheshPatel-nkfg]

Brilliant prelude to my Robotic technicians course online at University of Houston in collaboration with George Brown college, Ontario. Thank you Prof.Alberto Ezquerro.

[OthonOliveiraotluix]

Excellent introductory videos. I learned a lot more today than in other videos.

[ekremvkilic]

Hi, can you update the link for the slides. Excellent work btw!

[EmilianoBorghi]

Excellent course!! Thank you for uploading!

[Joe-zzoq]

Thank you very much for publishing these and so many resources!

[electronicsforgeeks]

are you guys alive ? please upload more content... thanks for help.

[fastlane]

Can you please repost the link to the slides? It is broken.

[yunuscebeci]

Guys can someone tell me why ROS exists? I mean why it is needed. I am a mechanical engineer, but I need a real case to understand and get it clear in my mind. Can someone make an analogy to describe the ROS and its requirements for the robotics? What was the problem in the past so that they have created ROS? Thanks in advance

[oldcowbb]

why don't ros use more traditional names like session/ thread, instead of topic/node etc

[cesaredecal]

Thank you Prof. Fankhauser and ETH for these great lessons!

[Dayendra]

This is such a helpful course. Thank you so much for uploading!!!

[drummytbone]

i cannot find the world on ur website... nor do i understand what to do with the launch file

[Asgardian]

It looks like the Ubuntu_ROS_Course.zip link is not working. Is there another way we can download this file?

[vlgordon]

What does it mean when you rosrun your package and the node but it produces Segmentation fault (core dumped)
?

[manishakad]

One curious question. How the node structure of ROS is suitable for ROBOTIC applications?