An Introduction to ROS, the Robot Operating System: Introduction (1/6)

Sid Faber
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The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible, open source framework for writing robot software. ROS has been widely used in robotics research for over a decade, and many commercial products now rely on ROS.

We’ll cover the following topics:

The ROS architecture and how to get started
Basic ROS constructs: Nodes, topics, services and actions
Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu
Controlling hardware
Remote control of your robot
Adding sensors
Where to go from here
At the conclusion of this tutorial you’ll be prepared to build your own ROS-based robot!

[fabrizziogz]

The tutorial looks very promising. It would be nice to have links in the description for the next video in the series.

[sabunfab]

Thanks for this useful video. I have a question - could ROS be used as a universal OS for robots (like Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix OS for PC computers) or are there better (universal) robot OSes out there?

[wellingtonfroelich]

hi, great series. what rover kit did you purchase? could you provide a link?

[abdelz]

I'm a mechanical engineering major, do you think I should be getting into electronics and software or should I stick to getting good at 3d design, like solidworks?