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When you read this article you probably have heard about either ROS or Machinekit, but very likely not thought about combining both to build fully open source robots. Machinekit is an open source motion control software project. The aim of the project is to simplify the creation of motion control systems, be it CNCs, special machines or robots. ROS, the ...
Testing ROS powered Robots with pytest
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In this article, you will learn how to use Pytest to successfully test ROS powered robots. In particular I explain how to employ pytest for testing ROS nodes. Introduction ROS, the Robot Operating System, which is actually no operating system but a middleware plus a huge number of tools to build a distributed system, comes with excellent Python bindings. ROS ...