by Kade Truman | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
We are excited to release our first video in our new YouTube series, featuring our senior software engineer Dave Niewinski. Watch as he demonstrates the initial steps in setting up a Jackal UGV. This episode includes; how to power the robot, connecting a controller to...
by Kade Truman | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
Dave is back! The second episode is our YouTube series is now live. This time, watch as Dave demonstrates the initial steps in setting up a Husky UGV. This episode includes; how to power the robot (including what to do if you have the lithium-ion upgrade to the...
by Kade Truman | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
Introduction The Heron USV software has been undergoing a number of notable updates recently. One of the changes is a new simulator which utilizes Gazebo software. The control scheme and sensor processing on the simulated heron is performed in the same way on the...
by Ebrahim Shahrivar | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
In the previous article VT&R Part 1, we introduced Visual Teach and Repeat Technology and gave a insight into software highlights and its ease of use. In part 2, we will be looking into what makes VT&R different, potential applications and robot...
by Ebrahim Shahrivar | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Teaching and Learning |
Last month, we introduced the GPS Waypoint Navigation package, which is the ability to provide a robot with a set of GPS waypoints (i.e., a set of latitude / longitude pairs), and have the robot autonomously navigate from its current location to each of the defined...
by Tim Peckover | Jun 5, 2018 | Robot Forge, Teaching and Learning |
One of the most common things to do with a new robot is enable autonomy, or at least get started on it with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). For years, the easiest way to do this in ROS has been to utilize the open source Gmapping package, a ROS wrapper...
