ROS Tutorial at ICRA 2010

Several ROS experts will be on hand to give a full day ROS tutorial at ICRA 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. On May 7, we'll be spending the entire day teaching the ins and outs of ROS, from nodes and messages, to sensing, planning, and control. We'll be bringing a PR2 robot so that participants can get hands-on experience using existing ROS software libraries, while also learning to write new code. Exercises will be carried out both in simulation and on the robot. Whether you're a robot software developer, algorithm researcher, HRI researcher, robot competition participant, or commercial application developer, we encourage you to register and attend.

Attendees should be comfortable writing Python code, though need not be experts. Familiarity with ROS is encouraged but not required.

Important Links

• Tutorial Information
• Registration (please register for the tutorial when registering for the conference)

Topics

A preliminary list of topics that will be taught is below. See the tutorial page for schedule details and updates.

Basics

• use ROS command line tools and visualization tools
• launch, analyze, and debug distributed ROS systems
• write ROS nodes in Python
• write and use custom ROS messages

Perception

• access sensors and visualize data
• construct sensor processing pipelines

Planning and Control

• use and customize navigation for a mobile base
• use and customize motion control for an articulated arm
• build a high-level executive in Python

Simulation

• run complex robot simulations

Hardware

• control a complex mobile-manipulation platform

Organizers

• Gary Bradski, Willow Garage
• Ken Conley, Willow Garage
• Brian Gerkey, Willow Garage
• Morgan Quigley, Stanford University
• Melonee Wise, Willow Garage