Installation Notes

See Setting Up a Clean Installation of ROS for installation details. The general steps are:

1. Install Ubuntu 10.04
2. Install ROS (Diamondback)
3. Install relevant ROS packages

Instructions (by robot or sensor)

• Pioneer (p2os)
• iRobot Create
• Gazebo simulation
• Microsoft Kinect
• Hokuyo Laser rangefinder
• SwissRanger 4000
• Parrot AR.Drone
• Android devices
• LEGO NXT
• Ascending Technologies Quad Rotors
• Stage simulation
• Velodyne 3D Laser rangefinder
• ThingMagic RFID USB Reader

SANDBOX

Tutorial links

• SharpRobotica Tutorial - Developing Well-Designed Packages for Robot Operating System (ROS)
• ROS Cheatsheet (pdf)
• Stage Simulator
  • ROS Stage Tutorial: Simulating a Single Robot
  • ROS Stage API
  • Simulating a single robot (Assembla site)
• Examples for Moving the Robot Base
  • albany-ros-pkg

Implementation Examples

• CS4313 class example
• Using the Eclipse IDE
• PiRobot's Head Tracking using OpenCV
• PiRobot's Head Tracking in 3D
• Some examples
• Erratic example

Other links

• LEGO NXT ROS bindings
• http://rmp.segway.com/
• Making Screencast Videos using GLC

Other Robotics Courses

• U. Penn: MEAM620: Robotics
• Brown University: CS295-Z Robot Learning and Autonomy, CS148 Introduction to Autonomous Robotics
• U. of Nebraska-Lincoln: CSCE 496/896: Robotics
• U. Arizona: CS 665 : Practicum in Cognitive Architecture for Robots
• Washington U.: CSE 550A: Mobile Robotics
• Stanford U.: CS225B Fall 2010
• U. Colorado-Boulder: Introduction to Robotics Fall 2011, Advanced Robotics: Spring 2011
• U. Albany: Social Robotics Seminar
• K.L. Leuven: Advanced Robot Control Systems
• Institute of Systems and Robotics, Portugal: U. Coimbra, Lisboa
• Cornell U.: CS 4758/6758: Robot Learning
• U. Utah: Robotics Track
• CalPoly: notes FIXME

boldfaced are courses that use ROS

Other Helpful Links

• List of other open-source robotics software
• Standard Units, Coordinate Conventions

References

• List of relevant journals, books, conferences compiled by K.L. Leuven