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The future of the RoboPrototypes company is in your hands. It’s your first day at the company, which specializes in bespoke robotic solutions. The CEO has asked you to develop a prototype of a mobile robot that will serve drinks to mall food court customers. An important client will decide whether they’ll provide follow-up funding after they see your prototype in simulation. Working with Gazebo 11 and employing ROS best practices, you’ll create a model for a differential drive robot that meets the provided specifications. Next, you’ll simulate the robot, implement a basic teleoperation node for controlling it, and add velocity multiplexing for safety purposes.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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When you start your liveProject, you get full access to the following books for 90 days.
prerequisites
The liveProject is for programmers familiar with the basics of ROS who would like to simulate a robot. To follow this liveProject you’ll need a computer running Ubuntu 22.04 capable of running Gazebo and be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Git
- XML
- ROS 2
- Python
- Linux basics (installing and building software, working with command-line tools, shell basics, working with multiple terminals)
- Math (translations, rotations, and coordinate systems)
- Linear algebra
- Physics (kinematics and dynamics)
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn these essential skills for getting a differential drive robot moving in simulation using ROS 2:
- Basics of URDF and XACRO modeling
- Load a robot model in RVIZ2 and Gazebo 11
- Send Twist messages to the robot (and some of the safety implications involved)
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- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
- While within the liveProject platform, get help from other participants and our expert mentors.
- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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