In this category you find DIY autonomous robots using Robot Operating System
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the rosserial communication to publish the ranges of three HC-SR04 sensors, including: 1.Three ultrasonic sensors and Arduino. 2.How to write the ROS node on Arduino and publish the ranges of the … Read more →
The process of building an autonomous robot starts before the first sensor or actuator mounted on the chassis. The build process requires hardware and software setup, which is the topic of this article. The first step is to set up … Read more →
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure your Raspberry Pi 3B+ board for running Ubuntu MATE 18.04.2 (codename Bionic) and the 12th ROS Distribution (codename Melodic). But we study robotics on this blog. We need ROS to read … Read more →
If you are a beginner in ROS and want to learn how to create a ROS service, this tutorial is for you. I describe all the steps in details starting with creating the package and up to use the service … Read more →
I’m quite involved in developing an autonomous robot platform for outside work. The robot will work in the summer during the day for a few hours, which result in high temperatures for all its components. My main concern is the … Read more →
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running ROS Kinetic and I use it to control an autonomous robot. The plan is to improve my robot by adding computer vision capabilities. The Raspberry Pi has resources to build intelligent robots and … Read more →
I want to control an autonomous robot with a Raspberry Pi 3 board and ROS Kinetic. The Pi 3 will be connected to another Linux PC used for monitoring and control settings. The setup for computers are in this article. … Read more →
Coincidentally or not, after 10 years of ROS 1, the Open Source Robotics Foundation has launched a new version called ROS 2. ROS 2 (the code name “Ardent Apalone” – Apalone is a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae) … Read more →
Arduino is a great development board for reading data from various sensors and controlling the robot’s DC motors. Raspberry Pi is good at running ROS on Linux. So, we can benefit from both systems to build smart robots. The easiest … Read more →
A few weeks ago I started writing a series of tutorials that ease the work of beginners in ROS. The first tutorial was about a template for a publisher node, the second tutorial was about a template for a subscriber … Read more →