Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “ROS”
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In this article, you will learn about the opportunities of using Blender to animate industrial robots. Blender is an open source 3D animations software, which is used by 3D artists all over the world to create 3D art and cinematics scene, including blockbuster movies. A couple of weeks ago, someone mentioned to me that Blender 2.8 will be a revolutionary ...
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In a previous article, I explained how Machinekit and ROS could be combined to build fully autonomous robots. In this article, I focus on my project of retro-fitting an industrial robot arm with Machinekit and using it with ROS. The combination of ROS and Machinekit leverages the low-level real-time motion control capabilities of Machinekit and the high-level robotic tools that ...
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In this blog post, you will learn how to install ROS core on the BeagleBone Black/Green/Blue. For demonstration purposes, I will use the Machinekit Debian Stretch image as a base. If you haven't read my blog post about why Machinekit and ROS would be a great combo, I encourage you to read it later. Although the BeagleBone Blue is designed ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
